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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers delete lines.. Post 22028 by hassan2 on Monday 27th of May 2002 09:20:07 AM
Old 05-27-2002
Hammer & Screwdriver

Edit the file using vi editor then type in
dd on the empty space this will delete the line

the procedure is

vi filename
dd

then :wq to save
 

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oggz-comment(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   oggz-comment(1)

NAME
oggz-comment -- List or edit comments in an Ogg file. SYNOPSIS
oggz-comment [-l | --list ] oggz-comment [-o filename | --output filename ] [-d | --delete ] [-a | --all ] [-s serialno | --serialno serialno ] [-c content- type | --content-type content-type ] filename oggz-comment [-h | --help ] [-v | --version ] Description oggz-comment lists or edits the comments of an Ogg file. Options oggz-comment accepts the following options: Listing options -l, --list List the comments in the given file. Editing options -o filename, --output filename Write output to the specified filename. -d, --delete Delete comments before editing. -a, --all Edit comments for all logical bitstreams. -c content-type, --content-type content-type Edit comments of the logical bitstreams with specified content-type. Run oggz-known-codecs(1) for a full list of codecs known by the installed version of oggz. -s serialno, --serialno serialno Edit comments of the logical bitstream with specified serialno. Miscellaneous options -h, --help Display usage information and exit. -v, --version Output version information and exit. EXAMPLES
List all comments in file.ogg: oggz comment -l file.ogg List only the comments in the Theora bitstream in file.ogv: oggz comment -l -c theora file.ogv Add the comment "GENRE=Rock" to the Vorbis bitstream of file.ogv, writing output to output.ogv: oggz comment -c vorbis -o output.ogv file.ogg GENRE=Rock AUTHOR
Kangyuan Niu August 5, 2007; COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Annodex Association SEE ALSO
vorbiscomment(1), ogginfo(1), oggz-info(1), hogg(1) oggz-comment(1)
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