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CMD equivalent of cat >> text.txt
type >> text.txt doesn't work on Windows. I want it to prompt me to enter text into the document and then allow me to finish by entering control + d.
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How to overwrite with a pipe in unix
So I am attempting to overwrite using a pipe:
//reads contents of file| turns lowercase to uppercase | changes $ to # |
// then attempts to overwrite original file with new version
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shell - multiple text insertion into each line of a file
I have a text containing coordinates of points such as x, y and z, I would like to change each line to be like:
Point{ (1000+linenumber) } = {x , y, z};
What I want is: for example for line 212 ...
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Unix cat to Windows user
I uploaded about 6GB of video in 3 separate files created using the cat command on my Mac, thinking the recipient of those files was a Mac user as well. It turns out he's using Windows 8. How can he ...
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cat wc -l count lines line with defined line endings (e.g Mac OS X specific)
As any command-line user I sometimes want to count lines in text file with well known command:
cat some_text_file | wc -l
I face the problem on Mac OS X, which as far I have it studied is connected ...
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How can I stop cat output immediately despite massive output?
I'm looking for someway to stop the output to STDOUT when I realize a command is wrong. For instance, if I accidentally cat a very large file. Usually it will eventually stop if you hold down ctrl + c,...
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How to display the file contents recursively?
I always have to submit the source codes in my printed assignment report. I have to copy and paste my course codes into the document and I find that it is an annoying task.
I want to solve this "copy ...
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How do I create a new file with text outputted from a command?
I just want to create a file with the outputted text from a command, rather then copying and pasting & making a new file by hand.
I'm on a unix machine - how do I do this?
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Cat file to terminal at particular speed of lines per second
I'm lazy and I could write a script to do this, but I'm even too lazy to think of how to do it.
I often do things like :
cris$ python runexperiment.py > output.txt
cris$ cat output.txt
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What is going wrong with cat
i have a very basic cat problem.
I have 23 files, all is one line and around 100000 columns.
I am trying to merge these one lines.
I type the command cat test1 test2 > outcome
The command line is not ...
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What is the Windows equivalent of the Unix command cat?
I want to do exactly what unix "cat" does, but on my PC. Is there a simple equivalent command for the Windows command line?
Specifically I want to create a file from all the files of a given type in ...
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What will happen when I 'cat' 'ksh'?
I used the following command in my unix box.
$ cat ksh
And it gave a rolling log of latin and greek letters and symbols and it kept on going with no signs of stopping. Eventually I had to close my ...
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What is the general consensus on "Useless use of cat"?
When I pipe multiple unix commands such as grep, sed, tr etc. I tend to specify the input file that is being processed using cat. So something like cat file | grep ... | awk ... | sed ... .
But ...
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How do I close a file that I created using cat > command?
I learning how to use git on a Mac and I'm trying to add a file in one of my branches by using the "cat > " command. The problem I'm having is that I want to end editing the file in the terminal but I ...
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Why does cat not use options the way I expect UNIX programs to use switches?
I have been a UNIX user for more years than I care to think about, and in that time I have been trained to expect that when contradictory switches are given to a program the last one wins. Recently I ...
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