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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting editing a file in a script Post 302405716 by cfajohnson on Friday 19th of March 2010 05:40:22 PM
Old 03-19-2010
Code:
file=/path/to/file
EDITOR=${EDITOR:-vi} ## User's preferred editor; use vi if not set

hash1=$( md5sum "$file" )
$EDITOR "$file"
hash2=$( md5sum "$file" )

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ocamlgraph-editor

OCAMLGRAPH-EDITOR(1)						   User Commands					      OCAMLGRAPH-EDITOR(1)

NAME

       ocamlgraph-editor - GTK-based graph editor based on hyperbolic geometry.

SYNOPSIS

       ocamlgraph-editor [-dfs] [-bfs] [-rr refresh-rate] [-aa] [[-help] | [--help]] [graph-file]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the ocamlgraph-editor command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       ocamlgraph-editor is an OCaml and GTK based graph editor based on hyperbolic geometry.

       -dfs
	   DFS drawing strategy.

       -bfs
	   BFS drawing strategy.

       -rr refresh-rate
	   Set the refresh rate, must be greater than 0.

       -aa
	   Turn off anti-aliased mode.

       graph-file
	   Files to edit.

       -help, --help
	   Display an help message.

LICENSE

       This manual page was written by Sylvain Le Gall gildor@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission
       is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1 or any
       later version published by the Free Software Foundation; considering as source code all the file that enable the production of this
       manpage.

AUTHOR

       Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008 Sylvain Le Gall

OCamlGraph							   June 21, 2008					      OCAMLGRAPH-EDITOR(1)
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