'c' shell scripts - (nf)

[Erik E. Fair]

I once used `a-truly-ugly-and-evil' way to read successive lines of a file
for csh. Combinations of head and tail can do the trick:

# To keep the evil sh away...
set x=1
while ($x < ????)
	head -$x FILE | tail -1 (or minus however many lines you want)
end

It is interminably slow (but then what can you expect with a two process
pipe being invoked to read successive line(s) of a file?).

	Erik E. Fair	{ucbvax,amd70,zehntel,unisoft,onyx,its}!dual!fair
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