RE: m4-discuss Digest, Vol 72, Issue 1

[John Calcote]

Hi John,

I see exactly what you want, but I'm not sure what you're asking for is
reasonable. Why would you want to run a file though a macro processor and
not have it process any macros? Given your original input files, "a" and
"b", consider this sequence of commands: 

cat a | m4 > out.txt
cat b >> out.txt

This would see to accomplish exactly what you want, wouldn't it?

Regards,
John Calcote

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Hi,
?
I am relatively new to m4, but can't seem to find an equivalent to include
that bypasses macro expansion.
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Suppose file 'a' contains
? hello world
and file 'b' contains
? goodbye world
and in my m4 I have defined
? define(world,and).
I a macro which I will call 'oinclude' such that ? include(a) oinclude(b)
expands to ? hello and goodbye world.

Is there a simple method?
?
Thanks,
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John?
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