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From: Luke Davis <ldavis@shellworld.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: joining a bunch of files
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 02:50:56 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.43.0112070250210.85814-100000@server1.shellworld.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.43.0112070133490.85308-100000@server1.shellworld.net>

That's exactly what the awk command I posted (using eval), and the xargs
commands posted by others, do; without the extra steps.

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Your safest way is going to be with a little shell script.  If you have
> the vis command it's probably better than cat -v.  I don't know if these
> files are parts of a binary or text file.  The general script would look
> something like this.  The redirection I do is for a good reason. cat -v a1
> a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9 >>afile. The first line of the script would be
> #!/bin/sh.  That longer line I wrote earlier would be duplicated as many
> times as necessary and you'd change the numbers each line down the script.
> so that the last line in the script would be cat a91 a92 a93 a94 a95 a96
> a97 a98 a99 >>afile.  If you use a command like .,.s/a[1-9]/a1[1-9]/gp
> <cr> That should change line 3 in the script from cat a1 a2 a3 a4 to cat
> a11 a12 a13 a14 etc.
>
> Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Brent Harding
 ` Luke Davis
 ` Mike Gorse
 ` dreamwvr
   ` Luke Davis
     [not found]   ` <Pine.BSF.4.43.0111301549410.66683-100000@server1.shellworl d.net>
     ` Brent Harding
       ` Luke Davis
       ` Nicolas Pitre
         ` Luke Davis
         ` Brent Harding
           ` Henry Yen
     [not found]       ` <Pine.BSF.4.43.0111301627330.66683-100000@server1.shellworl d.net>
         ` Brent Harding
           ` dreamwvr
       ` Jude DaShiell
         ` Luke Davis [this message]
     [not found]         ` <Pine.BSF.4.43.0112070250210.85814-100000@server1.shellworl d.net>
           ` Brent Harding
     ` John G. Heim (26 2-9887)

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