From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,81e27809a2922767 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-29 05:15:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bobby D. Bryant" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Modifying a file Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:02:55 -0600 Organization: dis- Message-ID: References: <686be06c.0307290336.13777c7e@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-46-77.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 1059480223 14166 128.83.112.205 (29 Jul 2003 12:03:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:03:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40938 Date: 2003-07-29T06:02:55-06:00 List-Id: On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 04:36:58 -0700, Daniel Allex wrote: > I have a file that is 13 lines long and I want to change the values of > the last 5 lines. What's the best way to do this? If it's a source file or data file you probably want to use a text editor or language sensitive editor such as vi, emacs, and many others. You could get more detailed suggestions if you said what was in the file and what operating system it is on. -- Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas