Copy several lines to new file

nbrane April 29, 2010 at 20:54:28

::edlin is easiest, if just using batch: @goto :10 9,#d e :10 copy /y master.txt second.txt edlin second.txt < %0.bat

Mechanix2Go April 30, 2010 at 05:53:56

If #1 does it, great. Otherwise post enough of them file to see what we're dealing with. ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

Response #1 did half of what I needed to do, but did not get the next 9 lines when I ran the batch the second time. I think it could be promising if I put the edlin commands in separate files and run edlin twice, once on the second.txt to remove everything after the 9th line and once on master.txt to remove the first 9 lines. If this works, it will gradually reduce master.txt by 9 lines at a time to become an empty file. That is OK, since the master.txt file is expendable.

I have tried this with the external edlin command text files and it appears to work well, although it creates a small square character as the last item in the both files. I don't know what it is or how to prevent it. I have tried adding /B when running edlin. Any ideas?

Nevermind, that character did not cause any problems and everything works well. Thank for your help.

Mechanix2Go April 30, 2010 at 11:16:32

@echo off > Second.txt & @echo off > newfile & setLocal enableDELAYedeXpansion for /f "tokens=1* delims=[]" %%a in ('find /n /v "" ^< master.txt') do ( if %%a leq 8 >> second.txt echo.%%b if %%a gtr 8 >> newfile echo.%%b ) move /y newfile master.txt ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2