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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Need help how to search for shortest line from a file Post 302925697 by RudiC on Tuesday 18th of November 2014 06:03:00 PM
Old 11-18-2014
I'm pretty sure the output you have given is NOT the result of the code you have presented.

What tools (e.g. awk) are allowed? It can be done with only shell (bash) builtins (while loop, read, parameter expansion, arithmetic evaluation).

EDIT: and junior-helper has given you hands-on examples for above...
 

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cdbs-edit-patch

CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)						CDBS Documentation						CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       cdbs-edit-patch - create or edit a CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch

SYNOPSIS

       cdbs-edit-patch patchname

DESCRIPTION

       cdbs-edit-patch	creates  or edits patches for use by the CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch system.	For more information about CDBS please see
       the documentation under /usr/share/doc/cdbs/.

       When patchname exists, cdbs-edit-patch will set up a temporary working source tree, apply all patches up to and including patchname in lex-
       icographic  order,  and	spawn  an  interactive shell for the developer.  The developer can then edit files in this working tree.  When the
       developer is done and exits the shell, cdbs-edit-patch updates patchname to reflect the changes made.  To abort the process from the inter-
       active shell, exit with a nonzero exit value.

       When patchname does not exist, cdbs-edit-patch will assume that a new patch should be created.  As with the above scenario, cdbs-edit-patch
       will first create a temporary working source tree and apply all patches up to the new patch in lexicographic  order.   When  the  shell	is
       quit, cdbs-edit-patch will create patchname.

AUTHOR

       CDBS  was  written  by Colin Walters and others.  cdbs-edit-patch was written by Martin Pitt.  This manual page was written by Peter Eisen-
       traut based on the dpatch-edit-patch(1) manual page.

SEE ALSO

       CDBS documentation in /usr/share/doc/cdbs/, /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk, dpatch-edit-patch(1), quilt(1)

Debian								    5 Feb 2006							CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)
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