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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Adding header and trailer into a file Post 302565234 by chedlee88-1 on Monday 17th of October 2011 10:37:05 AM
Old 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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maxdb_warning_count - Returns the number of warnings from the last query for the given link

       Procedural style

SYNOPSIS
int maxdb_warning_count (resource $link) DESCRIPTION
Object oriented style int$maxdb->warning_count () maxdb_warning_count(3) returns the number of warnings from the last query in the connection represented by the $link parameter. RETURN VALUES
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