stdout/stderr are very cool in _nix environments. Additionally, the fact that a j shell script can detect whether it has "piped input" (stdin) is very useful for stringing together really interesting processes, mixing and matching j and _nix scripts.
Long live the command line! At 20:53 -0400 2010/05/24, David Ward Lambert wrote: >I complain quite a bit. > >This feature works quite well and as far as I can tell is original to j. > > 'hi' 1!:2 [2 > >puts output where I'll see it with console or windows driver. >Thanks! >Dave. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
