Breaking large file into pieces

Larry Wall lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
Wed Sep 12 08:16:41 AEST 1990


In article <22842:Sep1121:10:3390 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
: In article <9466 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
: >     echo "$line"
: 
: C'mon, Larry. You know that should be echo -n "$line$n" where $n has
: been initialized to a newline. Or echo -n "$line"; echo.

Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.  Let's see you come up with
a solution that also works on all the \c machines.

Apart from "Install SVR4".  :-)

Larry



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