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06-05-2013

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Originally Posted by jaldo0805

Hello,
I have a file called geom.txt which has some data in a particular format readable by another program (after adding some 'standard lines'), so what I want to do is to have a script that enables me to create a file (lets call it 'inpfile') readable for that program using a cat command, if I want to introduce the value of a previously defined variable (lets say key=345298) into 'inpfile' I simple type $key and it prints the value of the variable into the file, but how to print the content of geom.txt? This is what I have so far:

Code:

cat<<eoi>inpfile
Some standard lines of the program that is going to execute inpfile ....
$key
Content of geom.txt desired
Some other standard lines...
eoi

Thanks,

You're almost there. All you need to do is define key before you invoke cat. So for your example, all you need is:

Code:

key=345298
cat<<eoi>inpfile
Some standard lines of the program that is going to execute inpfile ....
$key
Content of geom.txt desired
Some other standard lines...
eoi

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xkbfreegeomkeyaliases

XkbFreeGeomKeyAliases(3)					   XKB FUNCTIONS					  XkbFreeGeomKeyAliases(3)

NAME

       XkbFreeGeomKeyAliases - Free geometry key aliases

SYNOPSIS

       void XkbFreeGeomKeyAliases (XkbGeometryPtr geom, int first, int count, Bool free_all);

ARGUMENTS

       - geom geometry in which key aliases should be freed

       - first
	      first key alias to be freed

       - count
	      number of key aliases to be freed

       - free_all
	      True => all key aliases are freed

DESCRIPTION

       Xkb  provides a number of functions to allocate and free subcomponents of a keyboard geometry. Use these functions to create or modify key-
       board geometries.  Note that these functions merely allocate space for the new element(s), and it is up	to  you  to  fill  in  the  values
       explicitly  in  your  code. These allocation functions increase sz_* but never touch num_* (unless there is an allocation failure, in which
       case they reset both sz_* and num_* to zero). These functions return Success if they succeed, BadAlloc if they are  not	able  to  allocate
       space, or BadValue if a parameter is not as expected.

       If free_all is True, all aliases in the top level of the specified geometry geom are freed regardless of the value of first or count.  Oth-
       erwise, count aliases in geom are freed beginning with the one specified by first.

RETURN VALUES

       Success	      The XkbFreeGeomKeyAliases function returns Success if there are no allocation errors.

DIAGNOSTICS

       BadAlloc       Unable to allocate storage

       BadValue       An argument is out of range

X Version 11							   libX11 1.3.2 					  XkbFreeGeomKeyAliases(3)