Changed it slightly to separate the items in the line.
The above should work for list files of any name or size with one item per line,
or many items per line (space seperated, quoted or unquoted).
Quote:
This is confusing?
Actually the lists will be in a different file altogether and I'll just source that file to make it even less likely the script will need to be opened.
Last edited by ongoto; 12-06-2014 at 10:43 PM..
Reason: rewrite -- first example broke
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