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Old 11-13-2002
the CAT command
hi everybody,

how do i open a txt file writen in unix on to a web page

so when i want to view the txt file that was generated from a shell program, that file is open on a web page

do i use the cat > filename.html command to do this, or is there another way

many thanks

Smilie
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Old 11-13-2002
If you have a script that is generating the text file, then you COULD also generate a separate html file at the same time.
Further info on this can be found in this post .


As far as starting a web browser that brings up a specific page from the command line, I don't know if that can be done. UNIX isn't like Windows. If you double click on a html document or jpeg, Windows launches a browser to open it. I can't find any documentation on doing the same from the command line in UNIX (or in DOS - opening or giving the type command to a html doc will just type it out - not open a browser).
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Old 11-13-2002
cat > filename.html opens the file for input, not to be read. if you just want to read the file do "cat filename.html" or "more filename.html" to view the contents.

Smilie
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