On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Joe Xue <lgxue@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > echo "-.-. *"> patten > - a long on then a off > . a short on then a off > space a long off > * mean repeat the patten > s mean indicate the patten just one time then stop Why both "*" and "s"? What happens if none of them is specified? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html