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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using cat and awk....... Post 302376169 by ghostdog74 on Monday 30th of November 2009 09:14:56 PM
Old 11-30-2009
if you are trying to create junk.txt , and assuming it hasn't been created yet, then why are you reading it using the while loop first?? do it this way
Code:
bdf <options> | while read ....
do
    # do your stuff
done

 

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BDFIMPLODE(1)						      General Commands Manual						     BDFIMPLODE(1)

NAME
bdfimplode - Convert a BDF font into GNU Unifont .hex format. SYNOPSIS
bdfimplode < input_font.bdf > output_font.hex DESCRIPTION
bdfimplode reads a BDF font from stdin and writes GNU Unifont .hex conversion of the font to stdout. FILES
*.bdf font files SEE ALSO
hex2bdf(1), hex2bdf-split(1), hexbraille(1), hex2sfd(1), hexdraw(1), hexmerge(1), johab2ucs2(1), unibmp2hex(1), unicoverage(1), unidup(1), unihex2bmp(1), unipagecount(1), uniunmask(1) AUTHOR
bdfimplode was written by Roman Czyborra. LICENSE
bdfimplode is Copyright (C) 1998 Roman Czyborra, and is released under the following terms (taken from http://czyborra.com): "All of my works you find here are freeware. You may freely copy, use, quote, modify or redistribute them as long as you properly attribute my contribution and have given a quick thought about whether Roman might perhaps be interested to read what you did with his stuff. Hori- zontal rules don't apply." BUGS
bdfimplode was written to read a BDF file created by the hex2bdf script. It will not properly handle other BDF files with differing bound- ing boxes. 2008 Jul 06 BDFIMPLODE(1)
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