Gri Commands

1: Introduction
2: Simple example
3: Fancy example
4: Running Gri
5: Programming Gri
6: General Issues
7: X-Y Plots
8: Contour Plots
9: Image Plots
10: Examples
11: Handling Data
12: Gri Commands
13: Gri Extras
14: Evolution of Gri
15: Installing Gri
16: Gri Bugs
17: System Tools
18: Acknowledgments
19: License
20: Newsgroup

21: Concept Index

12.43: The `skip' Command

`skip [forward|backward] [.n.]'

  • `skip' For ascii files, skip forward 1 line in the data file. For binary files, skip forward 1 byte.

  • `skip backward' For ascii files, skip backward 1 line in the data file. For binary files, skip backward 1 byte.

  • `skip .n.' or `forward .n.' For ascii files, skip forward `.n.' lines in the data file. For binary files, skip forward `.n.' bytes.

  • `skip backward .n.' For ascii files, skip backward `.n.' lines in the data file. For binary files, skip backward `.n.' bytes.