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Old 10-01-2008
Printing files from a directory
Hi,

I need help in printing files from a directory.

eg: a directory called /home/ABC and there are 3 files in it.

I need to give printout one bye one. One more thing is I need to print date and the path on the top of each page...like...

Sep 30 14:22 2008 /home/ABC Page 1

I've been using command "pr" but couldnt succeed.

Thank You
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Old 10-05-2008

Doesn't this do what you want:

Code:
pr /home/ABC/*

If not, explain what's wrong with it.

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