PERL Beginners - Perl oneliner to delete lines from a file

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Perl oneliner to delete lines from a file

Ramprasad A Padmanabhan

2004-08-09, 3:55 am

I want to write a command line perl 'script' to delete one or more
lines from a file , by line number

for eg in sed I can do the same in two steps

cat FILENAME | sed -e '1,10d' >FILENAME.TMP
mv FILENAME.TMP FILENAME

The above mechanism has a lot of pitfalls , like maintaining
permissions , making sure FILENAME.TMP does not already exist etc.
That is why I want to do it with "perl -i "
but I dont want to write a full script for this , because I am going to
run it on remote machines ( automated ) , and I cant ftp the script
everywhere

Any suggestions
Thanks
Ram

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