> Just for the heack of it, I wrote a tiny Python echo program, and > interposed it in the pipe between the strings and grep command: > > while 1: > line = raw_input() > print line > > The command line now looks like this: > >> strings 00003193.DAT | python echo.py | grep Newsgroups: | head -10 > Newsgroups: comp.lang.python.announce > ... > Newsgroups: comp.lang.python.announce > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "echo.py", line 3, in ? > print line > IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument > close failed: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Thats exactly what I ghad in mind! :-) You've saved me the effort, thanks agin. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
