On Thursday 30 of August 2012 09:47:59 you wrote: > > caveat: output of one grep instance could end up in the midst of a /line/ > > of output of another grep instance. > > grep -b. but in general if the bio library had an option to output > line-wise, then the problem could be avoided. otherwise, one would need to > mux the output.
to quote you, erik, > pipes still preserve write boundaries, as does il so, hopefully, a dumb pipe to cat would do the job...? :^) grep-single-directory:VQ: $FILES_IN_THE_DIR grep $regex $prereq | cat -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] I'm sorry that this was such a long letter, but I didn't have time to write you a short one. -- Blaise Pascal