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Print file to stdout -- character by character
Thank you guys -- I got the one-liner working and the randtype utility is right on, too. Amazing! If this post is still up by the time I've completed my animation project I will go ahead and post the link...- aehem
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Print file to stdout -- character by character
Thank you -- that seems to do what I asked for, although usleep is not recognized in my bash shell and without this of course the text is simply output too fast... While I was waiting for a reply last night, however, I found that an Emacs macro does pretty much what I want by jumping between...- aehem
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Print file to stdout -- character by character
Here is my question (if you want to know why all this, please see the p.s.): Is it possible to print a text file's contents to stdout on a character-by-character basis? I figure, the script would have to be able to enumerate/index all or a section of characters in the text file and then move...- aehem
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
