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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Replace specific positions in a file Post 303031525 by RudiC on Friday 1st of March 2019 02:05:18 PM
Old 03-01-2019
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Mayhap my arithmetics are wrong, but 12345678 and 87459823 cannot fill character positions 4-13?
 

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ALCC(1) 							  aMule utilities							   ALCC(1)

NAME

       alcc - text based eD2k links calculator for aMule

SYNOPSIS

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       Compute the eD2k links of all the input files given in the <inputfiles_list> (There can be one or more files).

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aMule eD2k links calculator					   November 2011							   ALCC(1)
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