Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Breaking large file into pieces Message-ID: <22842:Sep1121:10:3390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 11 Sep 90 21:10:33 GMT References: <1990Sep11.134238.20218@dg-rtp.dg.com> <9466@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Organization: IR Lines: 7 In article <9466@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@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. ---Dan