Talk:Remove lines from a file

I'm not sure if this qualifies so much as a file system operation as data processing. A filesystem is part of the operating system, or sometimes intrinsic to a language's virtualized representation of a filesystem. I suspect that even describing this task as specific to the concept of a file may be inappropriate; it may be more appropriate to apply it to a buffer into which a file was read, or which maps to the context of some text field. By leaving it nonspecific, it can cover special case-behaviors (such as file-specific) as well as general-case behaviors (such as operating on arbitrary buffers of text). --Michael Mol 02:19, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Yeah. I noticed that other file handling tasks were in this category, so I dropped these in to match. I'm not really happy with this either, and I agree with you. I think we need a category for "File Handling", because this is a different concept to "File System Operations". We probably need to flesh out the descriptions to highlight the differences, and make the split at some point. Markhobley 06:00, 13 July 2011 (UTC)