Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:34:06 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: script Message-ID: <20020415202710.E57269-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <20020416020000.95326.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com>
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ann kok wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hi all > > I have a file, data is as column > > File > ---- > ann > angel > brown > manuel > > How do I change the data as line? > ann angel brown manuel Not really FreeBSD related, but UNIX related, and so it goes... Command substitution will do this nicely. One out of about a dozen ways I could think to accomplish this (assuming your infile is named file.txt): echo `<file.txt` or ls -l `<file.txt` The key is the ` (backticks: reverse single quotes), which cause the command inside to be evaluated and returned as arguments to the preceeding command (in these examples, echo, ls -l). Enjoy! :-) - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901 1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-3630 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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