09-09-2010
Hey bud, The line no. 16 is not deleted because it is not empty!
Now that you have managed to delete the 17th totally empty line, delete line number 16 (containing '16' at the beginning of the line) like this:
PHP Code:
sed '/^16/d' file > newfile
What it does is it deletes the line 'starting with' 16.
Let me know if that helped
(FYI - verified this on HP-UX)
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