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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete 40 lines after every 24 lines from a file Post 302887142 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 6th of February 2014 01:19:39 AM

02-06-2014

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Hi, just so you realize. This is contradictory to what you said in post #1 (delete is not the same as print), which some posters asked questions about, which lead to your post #4, which is contradicting both post #1 and in turn itself (the length would be 41, not 21) and both posts are contradicting your thread header. That is why I asked the question in #5, which you did not answer.

By doing this, you waste other people's precious time in which they volunteer to help, instead wondering what it is that you could be meaning.

Apart from the fact that you also cannot ask posters to hurry up or be quick:

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You would probably have received a reply 2 days ago if post #1 and the header would have been accurate. So please think of this next time.

If you have read through all of this just try changing s to 34 and p to 41.
Are you still interested in an explanation?

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httppower

httppower(8)							     powerman							      httppower(8)

NAME

       httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

       httppower [--url URL]

DESCRIPTION

       httppower  is  a  helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based power distribution units.	It is run interac-
       tively by the powerman daemon.

OPTIONS

       -u, --url URL
	      Set the base URL.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:

       auth user:pass
	      Authenticate to the base URL with specified user and password, using ``basic'' HTTP authentication which sends the user and password
	      over the network in plain text.

       seturl URL
	      Set the base URL.  Overrides the command line option.

       get [URL-suffix]
	      Send an HTTP GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended.

       post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
	      Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and key-value pairs as argument.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/httppower
       /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

ORIGIN

       PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters.  This software is open source and distributed under the terms
       of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

       powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman

powerman-2.3.5							    2009-02-09							      httppower(8)

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