Ruby ???

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On 05/19/2011 09:17 AM, james tate wrote:
> On 05/19/2011 09:24 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> I would probably do something like:
>>
>> sed -e "s@^[0-9]*[ ]*@@" input.file>  output.file
>>
>> This not only removes the line numbers, but the spaces after them as
>> well. If what shows up as spaces in the posting are really tabs, a
>> small change is required:
>>
>> sed -e "s@^[0-9]*\t@@" input.file>  output.file
>>
>> This also has the advantage of only removing the first tab, and
>> leaving all the other formatting the same. The first version will
>> remove all the spaces after the number until it hits a non-space
>> character. That would probably mess up any indentation in the script.
>>
>> Mikkel
> Well !!  If I knew anything about Ruby, I wouldn't have done it the hard 
> way.
Maybe one of these days I will have to learn something about Ruby. I
just know a little bit about changing the format of a file. You may
want to learn about sed, and a few other command line tools like
awk, cut, tr, etc...

Mikkel
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