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From: umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  Looking for a new 'join' command
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Date: 11 Jun 91 13:34:25 GMT
References: <clemon.3680@lemsys.UUCP> <1265@cbmger.UUCP> <29189@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <clemon.3910@lemsys.UUCP>
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Reply-To: umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller)
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In article <clemon.3910@lemsys.UUCP> clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon) writes:
>I wrote:
>>You can also use CShell (any version), which works under Kick 1.3:
>>  alias stuff "%a join -r $a map map2; delete map; rename map2 map
>
>        Is this not simply removing the need for a script but still doing
>the repetitive operation over and over again?

No. It's all done using one signle 'join' command, ie. in one pass.

>        My problem is partially pattern matching.  My main goal however is
>to eliminate a lot of little steps and use one large step.  This means that
>this join command would sort an alphabetical list (or whatever) of the
>directory.  The command would open the new file dump the contents of a into
>it, close a, dump b etc....etc....etc.... without closing the new file
>between feeder files.

Waste of time. This is quite exactly what CShell's join and, I believe,
the other shells' join commands do. Additionally, using assembly for a
task like this would speed up the whole thing by 1% or so, so forget it.

   -Dominik