-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:31:08AM -0400, Scott McClanahan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:27 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > > $ sed '/bar/,+5d' xx > > line 1 > > line 2 > > line after 6 > > line after 7 > > > Beautiful man! Hats off. I've never used sed like that but I'll surely > remember that one. Thanks from everybody. "sed" is a very nice tool. You can do amazing things with it. I once did a XML to HTML (limited) parser in it. I know someone that even coded a "Sokoban"-like game with sed and nothing else. Mastering sed really makes life much easier. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG1EjWpdyWzQ5b5ckRAqj+AJ49ACHmMgVADC57U/JKjjzh7COKSwCfYcFB RGFvx7rmGVtV9vb4MKiY/qY= =/Z+9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----