Re: How to batch-process data files

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de> 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.

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