Re: bi

[Rick <rickya@siservices.net>]

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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 jghasler@win.bright.net 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 <rickya@siservices.net> 

Date: 12-Apr-97                                                                                                Time: 01:01:39
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