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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Question regarding cat command Post 302341659 by mac4rfree on Thursday 6th of August 2009 10:29:24 AM
Old 08-06-2009
franklin, one interesting i found,

Code:
ad02 $ cat $a
10081551
10081599
10082234
10082259
20081134
20081159
30082232
10087721
kjlsab;kfd
kjbnaskj
kjabn;kj
akjldsb;k
akj;dhbsa
ad02 $ cat "$a"
cat: 0652-050 Cannot open aout.xml
bout.xml
cout.xml.
ad02 $ echo $a
aout.xml bout.xml cout.xml
ad02 $

here without quotes, it opens all the three files, but with quotes, it is throwing an error.
 

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INTLTOOL-MERGE(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 INTLTOOL-MERGE(8)

NAME
intltool-merge - merge translated strings into various file types such as XML SYNOPSIS
intltool-merge [ -v|--version ] [ -h|--help ] [ -q|--quiet ] [ -d|--desktop-style ] [ -k|--keys-style ] [ -o|--oaf-style ] [ -x|--xml-style ] [ -u|--utf8 ] [ -p|--pass-through ] PO_DIRECTORY FILENAME OUTPUT_FILE DESCRIPTION
Merge translated strings in po files in PO_DIRECTORY with the original application file FILENAME, and output the file OUTPUT_FILE contain- ing both the original and the localized strings. Afterwards the application xml file will contain repeated xml-nodes where each one contains one of all translations and a xml:lang attribute. OPTIONS
-v, --version Show version information. -h, --help Show usage and basic help information. -q, --quiet Be quiet while running. -d, --desktop-style Merge files in desktop style, which is similar to the Windows .ini file format. -k, --keys-style Merge files in the keys style, which is used for metadata. -x, --oaf-style Merge files in the oaf style. -x, --xml-style Merge files in the XML style, both as attributes and as raw pcdata. -u, --utf8 Convert all strings to UTF-8 before merging. -p, --pass-through Use strings as found in .po files, without conversion (STRONGLY unrecommended with -x). REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to http://bugzilla.gnome.org or by sending email to xml-i18n-tools@gnome.org. AUTHOR
Darin Adler <darin@bentspoon.com> Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> SEE ALSO
intltoolize(8), xml-18n-prepare(8), intltool-extract(8), intltool-update(8) intltool February 14, 2002 INTLTOOL-MERGE(8)
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