In fact, you can make it shorter on most systems by saying head -28 chopin_rulez.pmx > ...
(got a funny feeling that POSIX deprecated the -[number] syntax as it's weird to have a command with a near-infinite number of switches but there were too many scripts and admins who/which didn't bother with -n so it's still there) Also available under Windows if you download coreutils from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jill-Jênn VIE > Sent: 05 April 2009 13:04 > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: [TeX-Music] Magical command > > Hi all :) Hope you're all fine, > > It was just to share one command (under Mac OS X and Linux, I bet): > > head -n 28 chopin_rulez.pmx > tmp.pmx && pmxab tmp.pmx > > It copies the first 28 lignes (for example) of chopin_rulez.pmx into > tmp.pmx, then executes pmxab on tmp.pmx. > Very handy if you want to compile your PMX file until a certain line > (to know why you have this f****** segmentation fault ;)). > > I hope you don't have already a file tmp.pmx in your directory xD else > it will be crushed by this command ^^' > > See you! > > -- > Jill-Jênn > http://mickay.jill.free.fr/score/ > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org- > tex-music _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
