10-17-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by
munkeHoller
here's one way .....
for file in *.x; do
wc -c $file | awk '{printf("%ld,%s\n",$1,$2)}' > ${file}.temp && cat ${file} >> ${file}.temp && mv ${file}.temp ${file};
done
Yeah. This will work.
However, why would you want to program it this way?
It looks really complicated.
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