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Old 04-25-2009, 04:33 AM   #1
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How to duplicate rows of text from one file to another?


So one of the file has this:

input.txt
a
b
c
d

how do you create this?

output.txt
a
b
c
d
a
b
c
d
a
b
c
d

there's gotta be a simple one liner that can get this done quickly.

Thanks in advance!

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Old 04-25-2009, 08:14 AM   #2
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How about:
Code:
cat input.txt input.txt input.txt > output.txt
... or:
Code:
c=0; while [ c -lt 3 ]; do cat input.txt >> output.txt; \
c=$((c + 1)); done
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