Trying to batch delete line 3 from many .cvs files

[SJK_Daily]

We receive from our clients, thousands of Excel.csv files. Because of the the processes we run them through we need to open each file and manually delete line 3 from each file. It is very time intensive. What we do after we delete the 3rd line we resave the file in the same folder with a 2_ prefix to the file name. Is there any way to batch process these files to do this automatically? Appreciate any help anyone can give me. Thanks, SJK

[nil]

You can certainly accomplish this with many different batch processing tools. Personally, I would recommend Python.

This is a very similar question to yours, with example code. The only change you would need to make, is to have the program write to a different filename, rather than the original.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4710067/using-python-for-deleting-a-specific-line-in-a-file

I hope this information helps.

[Salmon Trout]

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[SJK_Daily]

I'm sorry, I've never made one of these batch files before and I don't understand the steps either. I'd need the instructions dumbed down quite a bit. Thanks for any help that anyone is willing to offer.

[nil]

For starters you can download Python from the Windows Store. (I'm assuming you're using Windows 10?)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/python-37/9nj46sx7x90p?activetab=pivot:overviewtab