On Thursday 10 July 2003 16:44, David Z Maze wrote: > Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I thought that the text and the dashed line would confuse gnuplot, > > but they are just ignored. Thanks, Nick, and sorry for the noise... > > (Anyway, it would still be interesting how to just comment out the > > first six lines of text...) > > I'd use "sed -e '1,6s/^/#/'" -- "on lines one through six, replace > start-of-line with a pound sign". You'd need to go through the > normal sed contortions to make it replace the original files, though. > You could also use "sed -e 1,6d" or "tail +7" to discard the first > six lines. >
for i in *.txt; do sed -e '1,6s/^/#/' $i > `echo $i | sed s/.txt/-proc.txt/`; done This does the job. Thanks to all joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
