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Bruce Robertson <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 21 May 2003 09:57:14 -0700
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I tried this "manually" in terminal

Man cp >~/mydoc.txt

But the result includes some "stuttering", so I'm wondering about the what
would happen if I tried to use this with do shell script.



CAT(1)            System General Commands Manual            CAT(1)

N NA AM ME E
     c ca at t - concatenate and print files

S SY YN NO OP PS SI IS S
     c ca at t [- -b be en ns st tu uv v] [- -] [_ f_ i_ l_ e _ ._ ._ .]

D DE ES SC CR RI IP PT TI IO ON N
     The c ca at t utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the
standard
     output.  The _ f_ i_ l_ e operands are processed in command line order.
A single
     dash represents the standard input.

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