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Old 05-16-2008
hern14 hern14 is offline
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Deleting lines in text file

Hi everyone,

I have text files that I want to delete lines from. I have searched through this forum for quite some time and found examples of both awk and sed. Unfortunately, I was not able to successfully do what I want. Well to some extent. I did manage to delete the first 15 lines from each of the text files, since all the text files will have the same first 15 lines.

So, I have a text file that looks like this:

Id First Name Last Name
--- ---------- ---------
1 Mary Jane
2 Joe Blowe

2 record(s) selected.

Return Status = 0


Notice the lines in bold....every text file will have this at the end. This file will be emailed and the recepients won't have a clue to what those two lines mean, so I would like to remove them. Any suggestions? THANKS!