Unix Shell - Re: showing content of a list of files ?

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Re: showing content of a list of files ?

Stephane CHAZELAS

2006-06-20, 7:26 am

2006-06-20, 00:01(+00), Carl Lowenstein:
[...]
> Has nobody yet thought of the ancient solution to this problem, using a
> semi-undocumented side-effect of more(1)? And two useful uses of cat(1).
>
> $ more $(cat index_file) | cat

Again

IFS='
'
set -f
more -- $(cat index_file) | cat

if index_file is a newline separated list of file paths.

Or with GNU head and xargs:

xargs -d '\n' < index_file head -n -0

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Stéphane