topic Re: Text file modification in Operating System - HP-UX

Text file modification

rmueller58 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:19:16 GMT

Wanted to check and see if someone has a simple way I can take a files that looks like this:

-n dbname1
-n dbname2
-n dbname3
-n dbname4
-n dbnamen

and make a line that looks like this:
-n dbname1 -n dbname2-n dbname3-n dbname4-n dbnamen

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Re: Text file modification

Heironimus — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:42:32 GMT

echo $(cat yourfile)

Re: Text file modification

rmueller58 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:07:04 GMT

Thank you Hermonius.. That did the trick..

Re: Text file modification

Dennis Handly — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:29:04 GMT

Or better: echo $(< yourfile)

Re: Text file modification

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:51:48 GMT

Hi Rex:

> Or better: echo $(< yourfile)

"better" = "faster" as documented in the Posix shell ('sh-posix') manpages.

Regards!

...JRF...