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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing Header & Trailer from a file Post 302358411 by karthi_gana on Friday 2nd of October 2009 12:24:06 PM
Old 10-02-2009
Thanks Franklin!

I tested the second one. It works fine.

But i don't want to create another file. I tested the script as below

filename > filename. After executing the script, the <filename> becomes empty.

so isn't possible to remove the header & footer and store it in the same file itself?

Also can you tell me what is the difference between the first one and second one? i mean which will give give good performance?
Last edited by karthi_gana; 10-02-2009 at 01:30 PM..
 

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NAME

       Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header - header stanza of Debian copyright file

VERSION

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SYNOPSIS

	   my $copy = Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header->new(\%data);
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DESCRIPTION

       Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header can be used for representation and manipulation of the header stanza of Debian copyright files in an
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FIELDS

       The supported fields for header stanzas are listed below.

       Note that real copyright fields may contain dashes in their names. These are replaced with underscores.

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CONSTRUCTOR

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SEE ALSO

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