Comments on: How to remove specific lines from a text files using either vbs or bat. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-remove-specific-lines-from-a-text-files-using-either-vbs-or-bat/ Thu, 23 May 2013 23:47:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: swinehart6803 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-remove-specific-lines-from-a-text-files-using-either-vbs-or-bat/#comment-83503 swinehart6803 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:02:38 +0000 #comment-83503 Thank Plb

After figuring out the syntax and command line switches it was easy using ssed.
For anyone who comes across a need like this again the code I used is below

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ssed -e 1,8d -e 10,21d -e $d report.csv > C:cleaned_report.csv

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The key was to be able to stack the command and delete multiple lines is to use the “-e” switch. And this version does not like to have spaces after the line number or range of numbers, unlike to web examples.
Plus I had trouble running getting it edit files that did not exist in the same folder as the .exe, so I just dumped the files I wanted to edit into the same folder as ssed.exe and ran the it there.

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