rcte2p@menudo.uh.edu (Paul Stephen Sears) (01/10/91)
I have some questions about pr and cat. I want to combine a number of small text files into a single file. Many of these files are less than one page long. They are not also very nicely formatted. I thought of using cat, but the files run together and I wanted a way to identify each new file. So I considered using pr since it puts on headers and footers... Now, what I want to be able to do in pr is to KEEP the headers and to remove the footers since, only one file will be put on a page and that is what I am trying to avoid. If I do a pr -t *, I get all the files together, but I loose the header that separated the files. I guess, I would like something like the VMS command print/nofeed/header *. Any ideas? -- Paul Sears The Univ. of Houston |"The greater an individual's power Student of the College of Technology | over others, the greater the evil that RCTE2P@Jetson.uh.edu *** | might possibly originate with him." RCTE2P@menudo.uh.edu * * * | - PROPAGANDA, from A Secret Wish (CD)
raja@bombay.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja) (01/10/91)
In article <1991Jan9.211742.16190@menudo>, (Paul Stephen Sears) writes:
< I have some questions about pr and cat. I want to combine a number of
< small text files into a single file. Many of these files are less than
< one page long. They are not also very nicely formatted. I thought of
< using cat, but the files run together and I wanted a way to identify
< each new file. So I considered using pr since it puts on headers and
< footers... Now, what I want to be able to do in pr is to KEEP the
< headers and to remove the footers since, only one file will be put on a
more * > tempfile
Narayan Sriranga Raja.det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) (01/12/91)
rcte2p@menudo.uh.edu (Paul Stephen Sears) writes: >I have some questions about pr and cat. I want to combine a number of >small text files into a single file. [...] one page long. I thought of >using cat, but the files run together and I wanted a way to identify >each new file. You could try the following: pr * | uniq This will provide you with headers for each file, but uniq will filter out superfluous line feeds at the end of each file... -- Derek "Tigger" Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG - MNFHA, NCS - UMN Women's Lax, MWD I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need your advice. -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots