[H-GEN] sorting out the cats...more or less

Sid Young syoung at powerup.com.au
Thu Oct 15 01:22:55 EDT 1998



Easy mistake to make, especially on really big files... Not enough caffine
is the usuall excuse...

At 14:18 15/10/98 +1000, you wrote:
>
>Thanks Bruce Campbell, thanks Sid Young...
>
>if anyone else wants to respond to my initial post pointing out how dumb
>I've been (I didn't even realise my input file had so many blank lines),
>please do so off the list, so I don't cause any more wasted time for
>people....
>
>(honest...the public humiliation has nothing to do with it)
>
>Eric
>;-)
>
>
>On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Sid Young wrote:
>> 
>> Blank lines will be sent to the top of the file, do a "tail" on the file
>> and see whats at the end, then cat it again, piping it through more.
>> 
>> At 12:17 15/10/98 +1000, you wrote:
>> >
>> >Hi
>> >
>> >Can anyone shed some light on this for me ?
>> >
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