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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting remove lines from file Post 302296388 by lweegp on Wednesday 11th of March 2009 05:17:41 AM
Old 03-11-2009
remove lines from file

Hi gurus,

i'm trying to remove a number of lines from a large file using the following command:

sed '1,5000d' oldfile > newfile

Somehow the lines in the old file are not deleted...

Am I doing this wrongly? Any suggestions? Smilie

Thanks! Smilie

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