On 12Jun2008 19:47, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 18:53 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: | > It reads stdin and writes stdout, like most unix command line programs. | > The shell will connect those to whatever you want with |'s or | > <>'s. Using cat with a pipe is a waste of a process, though. tr can | > read it's own input just as well with <input-filename. | | Quite true, but I remember a remark in one of the classic Unix papers to | the effect that people somehow found the 'cat foo | ' syntax more | natural. There's plenty of stuff that's "more natural" that shouldn't be done. I'd start with snoring and progress from there... -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It's hard to believe that something as rational as the metric system was invented by the French. - Henry O. Farad <lrc@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
