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On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 18:58 +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
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I have a file:
cat file.txt
daemon
1):
596
0
0
1
0
0
bin
2):
12
0
0
1
0
0
sys
3):
0
0
0
0
0
0
And i want to only output the first, second, and fourth line to another
file.
The:
sed -n '1,2p;4p' file.txt
doesn't work.
What magic do i need for it? :D
Thanks..:\
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Perhaps you need to redirect the output to the second file :)<BR>
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'>' if you can overwrite the second file:<BR>
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sed -n '1,2p;4p' file.txt > 2nd_file.txt<BR>
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or >> if you want to append to it:<BR>
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sed -n '1,2p;4p' file.txt >> 2nd_file.txt<BR>
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