On 05/19/2011 03:23 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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 Believe me I'm working on it. Thanks -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
