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- Don't forget to look for the GNU utilities egrep and sed on this BBS!!!
- These are some UNIX-like utilities that will be most useful to you if
- you have a piping shell like ARP's 1.3 AShell or Bill Hawe's WShell.
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- c -- put input into as many aligned columns as possible. It may be
- possible to fit that entire directory onto one screen after all!
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- cut -- cut <n> [file list], cuts out a field from each input line. Not
- overly useful until I implement the -v and more-than-one-field option,
- but still gets used.
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- nl -- put each input word onto a separate line.
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- rand -- generate a random integre from 0 -> 2^31. Useful for generating
- temporary filenames, and the like.
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- rev -- output lines in reverse order they came in.
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- sh -- to enable non-piping programs to be piped. eg,
- Lattice's 'wc' would be piped as '... | ... | sh "wc @" | ...',
- where '@' tells sh where the filename should go. Note it's implemented
- as an ARP shell scipt, so you'll need AShell for this one.
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- tail -- see docs
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- uniq -- delete adjacent duplicate lines. Use to compress files that have
- more blank lines than you'd like, or to take out duplicates that 'sort'
- spits out,...
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