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--lyndon ------- Forwarded Message From: Adam Thornton <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 09:55:30 -0700 Message-ID: <CAP2nic0E=0dlt2jadjv0ocbqubaqkd6+2hy30hpkjowpvc7...@mail.gmail.com> To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <[email protected]> Subject: [TUHS] Re: Pipes (was Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?) On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 8:20=E2=80=AFAM Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unix pipelines, on the other hand, tend to be used in a manner that is > strictly linear, without the fan-out and fan-in capabilities described > by Morrison. Of course, nothing prevents one from building a > Morrison-style "network" from Unix processes and pipes, though it's > hard to see how that would work without something like `select`, which > didn't yet exist in 1978. Regardless, Unix still doesn't expose a > particularly convenient syntax for expressing these sorts of > constructions at the shell. > > Rick Troth has recently published xfl, which is pretty much CMS Pipelines for Unix. https://github.com/trothtech/xfl He's got a slide deck on it at http://www.casita.net/pub/xfl/pervasive-vmws-2024.pdf . There are a lot of really cool things you can do with fanin/fanout. Adam
