Re: [nottingham] Hassle with perl script

From: Paul Sladen (notlug@paul.sladen.org)
Date: Tue 08 Jan 2002 - 18:11:21 GMT


Just realised why this didn't get through wnet I mailed this morning--I sent
it from the wrong `faked' email address!

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From: Paul Sladen <lists@paul.sladen.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 03:57:59 +0000 (GMT)
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On 8 Jan 2002, mike wrote:
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> [...]

Perhaps a lesson in not using Perl unless you /really/ have to <smirk> :)
Since you've already done the hard work of extracting the filenames in the
first half... the rest might(!) be easier in shell:

  echo $file_list | sort -u | xargs cat > dest-file

HTH,
        -Paul

Crumps... it's 4am in the morning... nowt good.

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