Re: Removing every other word from a text file
From: Jan van den Broek (fortytwo_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 04/29/03
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:03:48 MET
29 Apr 2003 04:34:20 -0700
andycheung2000@hotmail.com (Andy Cheung) schrieb:
>Could someone please help me with editing a text file? I have a large
>text file in which I need to remove every other word. That is, word
>numbers 2,4,6,8,10 etc need to be deleted. Is there a Vi command or
>some other command I can use to do this easily?
You might try someting like:
sed 's/[ <TAB>]/<CTRL-V><CTRL-M>/g/'|awk 'NR%2 {print $0}'|fmt
This is untested, but it might be a starting point.
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