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Old 05-22-2008
Franklin52 Franklin52 is online now Forum Staff  
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You can't redirect the output to the inputfile. Redirect the output to a temporary file and move it to the original file, something like this:


Code:
awk '/<\/body>/ || /<\/html>/{next}1' file.html > file1.html

mv file1.html file.html

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