text editingor processing

exodist · 11-29-2003, 06:28 PM

I have about 1500 text files (seperate files) each starts with " (PICTURE)" on the first line, then everythign else is on lines below it. is there a command or script I can use/make to go into each of these files and remove that first line?

david_ross · 11-29-2003, 06:49 PM

Try this:

Code:

IFS="
"
for file in `find /path/to/files`;do tail -n $((`grep -c "" $file`-1)) $file > /tmp/tempfile;mv /tmp/tempfile $file;done

NOTE: This will remove the first line from any file returned by the find command! If you cannot create a find pattern to only match the files you want to edit I would add an if statement to look for your pattern on the first line of every file.

exodist · 11-29-2003, 11:24 PM

thank you, but I actially made a shell script to do it for me.