Import question

[Bob Stockler]

Don Coleman wrote (on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:06:56AM -0500):

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net] 
| Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:49 PM
| To: Don Coleman
| Subject: RE: Import question
| 
| Quoting Don Coleman (Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:57:33 -0500):
| 
| > Sorry to be bothersome but...
| > Wally T. sent me the TR.EXE program you referenced.  When I run
| > according to your post
| > Tr.exe -d "\0" qs1data.txt qs1data2.txt
| 
| Re-read my post below.
| 
| > I get an error message saying too many arguments.  Could you clarify?
| > My originating data file is QS1DATA.TXT.
| [...]
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net]
| [...]
| >     tr -d "\0" <file1.txt >file2.txt
| 
| Ken, Wally, and others; thanks for the tip, after one question answered by
| Ken off-list it is working fine (processing a 3.5 MB file in about 1
| second).  One final question, what does the < do?  

The < tells the program to use that file as its standard input
(IOW it redirects the standard input just as > redirects the
standard output).

Bob

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