Hi Shaw,
> Hello, I have a file that has over 6500 lines of code I want to use but
> almost every line has a '+' in front of it. The code is from a patch
The '+' -marks mean that line should be added compared to the original file
that's supposed to be patched.
> file that I couldn't get to patch so I am doing it manually. Can anyone
> help me with a simple unix script that will filter out these '+'s?
> Maybe to read in the first character of every line and if it is a '+'
> then delete it, otherwise move on to the next line. Or does anyone know
> an easier way?
If you use vi -the editor, the following command will remove any + -marks
in the beginning of the line:
%s/^+//
Try that ;) (just make a backup first :)
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Nynaeve
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