I'd like to find a way to remove odd lines from a text file. I've found examples of removing lines, but in those cases they were the first or last three lines, or else lines that contained a certain word, and I haven't been able to adapt them to my needs (not to surprise, being a newbie).

I suppose it could probably be done with sed, but my knowledge about it is zero.

I'm open to any suggestion: a pipe, a bash/perl script, sed/awk...

I know this will probably be a lame question for most of you, so I appeal to your indulgence.

Many thanks in advance.

tHIS will probably do what U want:

sed -n '~2p'

OR

sed -n '1~2p'

Thank you very much.

The first option (sed -n '~2p') gave me an error:

"sed: -e expression #1, char 2: Cannot use +N or ~N as first address"

But the second option worked perfectly. It removed even lines, but using '2~2p' instead of '1~2p' it removed odd lines.

Thanks again.