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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to copy set of lines n times? Post 302764949 by nsuresh316 on Friday 1st of February 2013 07:07:43 AM
Old 02-01-2013
How to copy set of lines n times?
I have a file with following data
Code:
A
B
C

I would like to print like this n times(For eg:n times)
Code:
A
B
C
A
B
C
A
B
C
A
B
C
A
B
C
A
B
C
.
.
.
A
B
C

Code:
My shell is csh

Also this may be achieved using
Code:
cat file file file .... file > newfile

But i need other solution apart from using cat command
 

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times

times.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							    times.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       times.h, times - file access and modification times structure

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/times.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The <sys/times.h> header defines the structure tms, which is  returned by times() and includes the following members:

       clock_t tms_utime      /* user CPU time */
       clock_t tms_stime      /* system CPU time */
       clock_t tms_cutime     /* user CPU time of terminated child processes */
       clock_t tms_cstime     /* system CPU time of terminated child processes */

       The clock_t type is defined as described in <sys/types.h>.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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SEE ALSO

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