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By default I would just return an errorlevel, if appropriate parameters were not provided.
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(By default I would just return an errorlevel, if appropriate parameters were not provided.)
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Woops, I've thought of something that is close to this. What do you think about creating a command line utility "extract" that by default extracted the first line from a file and printed it to stdout whilst leaving the file behind with its first line missing. extract could be given two options: a starting line (defaults to 1), and the number of (this and subsequent), lines to extract (defaults to 1). Missing lines return the null string (without a line terminator). If the file ends without a line terminator then the if that line is returned then it is without a line terminator. Numeric options should not be zero or negative. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 06:55, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 
::Yeah that sounds a useful gadget. I'm not sure about the name "extract", because it actually does a deletion too, but it is a good idea,. andBy default I would makejust return an errorlevel, aif greatappropriate separateparameters taskwere onnot hereprovided. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 0721:0853, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
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