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Why not just echo > text.file and echo >> text.file??
Or maybe use this to write a small C program that will write the text file?
Just kidding. I know all these things play important roles. I just don't
believe in buying a convertible and never putting the top down or buying a
Corvett and driving it at half the speed limit all the time.
I guess the years I spent in M.I. using the line editors on the unix systems
we used broke me. When they finally put a full screen editor in I was born
again.
Anyway. To each his own.
On 12-Apr-97 Richard Sharman wrote:
>Jason Costomiris writes:
> > On 11 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > > THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
> > >
> > > Teco.
> >
> > Bwah. Real men edit with cat, sed, awk, head and tail. Better yet, they
> > write directly to the disk with a hex sector editor.
> >
>
>
>sed, head AND tail? Isn't that a bit extravagent?
>head -4 f == sed 4q f
>
>Actually, if you have awk I don't think you need sed.
>
>
>Here's head and tail with awk
>
>
>
>Head() {
> awk "(NR > $1) {exit} {print}" $2
>}
>
>Tail() {
> n=`wc -l $2 | awk "{print \\$1 - $1}"`
> awk "( NR < $n ) {next} {print}" $2
>}
>
>The syntax is a little different, use Head 4 f instead of head -4 f
>
>
>% Head 4 f
>line 1
>line 2
>line 3
>line 4
>% Tail 4 f
>line 6
>line 7
>line 8
>line 9
>line 10
>%
>
>If you have tac, tail is much easier:
>
>% tac f | Head 4 - | tac
>line 7
>line 8
>line 9
>line 10
>%
>
Have a good one.
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Rick Jones E-Mail: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12-Apr-97
Time: 01:01:39
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