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From: nwosuck@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Kingsley Nwosu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How read a line of a file from C-shell?
Message-ID: <4339@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com>
Date: 30 Oct 90 18:30:32 GMT
References: <8900@ncar.ucar.edu>
Organization: IBM Corporation, Kingston, NY
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In article <8900@ncar.ucar.edu>, tparker@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker) writes:
> 
> 
> I tried something like      foreach line(`cat file`)
> 
> The only method I've gotten to work is this inelegant structure: 
> 
>       set line = `head -$n | tail -1`   # Read n-th line
> 
> Does anyone have better ways to do file I/O in a C-shell script?
> 

On my IBM AIX/370 OS I am able to do:

cat <filename> | awk '{FS=CR; print $1}'

This prints each line. You can then pipe the output to the desired function,
if that is what you want.


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