In article <1993Apr14.032021.12691@ksmith.com> keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) writes:
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>Bare minimum is your shell, 'cat' and 'mv' IMHO.  'ln' would be nice,

Assuming an 8-bit-clean shell (so you can handle binary files), cat is

        while read line; do echo line; done < infile > outfile

(Well, assuming your shell can handle LARGE lines... again, significant only
if you are going to copy binaries with it.)

++Brandon
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