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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Appending to filename a string of text grep finds Post 82776 by HLee1981 on Tuesday 6th of September 2005 02:35:45 PM
Old 09-06-2005
Thanks.

For the line reading "file = 'A.fileA', if there are multiple files I want to apply the mentioned task to, how would the value for that field be filled?

I guess the same question applies for the post value as well, since that value would be different from file to file.

Thanks!
 

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NAME
guess-helper - Tries to guess the configuration by comparing four dumps of the NVRAM. SYNOPSIS
guess-helper DESCRIPTION
guess-helper is a helper program from the package nvram-wakeup. It will guide you through the procedure of creating the files needed for the program guess and eventually will run guess at the end. The output will be a configuration file which might even work ;-) Don't change any other BIOS settings you are not told to change until the procedure is finished. See README.mb for more details. SEE ALSO
nvram-wakeup(8), guess(8), README.mb HOMEPAGE
http://sf.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/ AUTHOR
Written by Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>. REPORTING BUGS
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