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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Breaking large file into pieces
Message-ID: <9469@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 11 Sep 90 22:16:41 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.134238.20218@dg-rtp.dg.com> <9466@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <22842:Sep1121:10:3390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <22842:Sep1121:10:3390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
: 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.

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