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Instead of using an ugly workaround (the pipe) for the downsides of a wrong solution (for loop in processing text), it would be better to think about what you actually need, and to find a good solution for that. You already got one answer for the question you posed, and you would have received other answers, if you'd told up front what you actually want. Here, you're just outputting the data, and to do that, you could just cat indexes.out on the original file, without the space-to-pipe transformation

ilkkachu
– ilkkachu

2019-07-19 09:08:58 +00:00
Commented Jul 19, 2019 at 9:08

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