Programming :: Printing Text From An External File In C?
May 24, 2010
I was reading through the source code of adventure in the bsdgames package and I had noticed that most of the text is read from a file called glorkz. I'm wondering about what function/technique the author used to print from the file; I've been looking through the code for a while (particularly io.c) and I haven't been able to figure it out.
I'm doing some bash-scripting and want to be able to print some text (just plain text) files into the new bash-scripts, created within a loop. Here's a short example of what I do:
Code: # main bash script # #!/bin/bash ##Filename variable1=10 for ((j=0;j<=40;j+=1)) do ## Create another bash-script echo "#!/bin/bash" >> bash_script_$j ... some stuff... cat file1.txt >> bash_script_$j ... some more stuff... done where the text file (file1.txt) I want to print in the the new bash script looks something like:
Code: # file1.txt # ...some stuff... logsave log some_program($variable1) mv output_$j folder_$j/ ... some more stuff...
I.e, the text file contains variables such as "$j", "$variable1" etc that are undefined. Doing the above works for creating new bash scripts (bash_script_1 - bash_script_40) but the variables are not determined. I would like, if possible, to somehow print the text in file1.txt into the new bash-scripts with the variables determined, i.e:
Code: # bash_script_1 # ...some stuff... logsave log some_program(10) mv output_1 folder_1/ ... some more stuff...
The text files I read are quite extensive so I would really prefer not having to paste them into the FOR-loop directly.
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[code]....
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