This works exactly as you said, but is there a way to make it print blocks 1,3,5, 7 and 1,4,7,9 etc..?
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Originally Posted by radoulov
To print the blocks 2, 4, 6 and so on:
To print 3, 6, 9 and so on, set v to 3: ... v=3 infile
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Thanks for your reply but this doesn't work.
It seems that this command adds spaces into certain spots of the file at the begining but does remove the correct blocks towards the end. Here is the the first few blocks:
and here are the blocks at the end:
As you can see, it does remove every second block at the end but it also adds in spaces for some reason...
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Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try:
m=2,3,4 etc...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ctsgnb
Thanks for your suggestion. This does remove blocks of text but it seems it is removing 2 or 3 or 4 blocks rather than removing every second block.
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