[lug] I need help from a bash scripting guru

[David L. Anselmi]

Paul E Condon wrote:
[...]
> When I'm using back-quote, I don't actually have any back-quote field
> delimiters in the input files. The sole effect is to disable
> delimiting fields at the spaces.  I _want_ the whole line to be
> treated as one field, which happens if no field delimiter is found.
[...]
> Its beginning to look like I can't get what a want.

An option to join whole lines seems useful to me, not that I use join. 
So you could write a patch and see if the maintainers will take it (or 
vice versa).  Unless that's the same thing comm does.

Dave