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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: 'c' shell scripts - (nf)
Message-ID: <206@dual.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 01:27:10 EST
Article-I.D.: dual.206
Posted: Wed Jan  4 01:27:10 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Dec-83 01:13:38 EST
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Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA
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I once used `a-truly-ugly-and-evil' way to read successive lines of a file
for csh. Combinations of head and tail can do the trick:

# To keep the evil sh away...
set x=1
while ($x < ????)
	head -$x FILE | tail -1 (or minus however many lines you want)
end

It is interminably slow (but then what can you expect with a two process
pipe being invoked to read successive line(s) of a file?).

	Erik E. Fair	{ucbvax,amd70,zehntel,unisoft,onyx,its}!dual!fair
			Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California