I've noticed that this is one of the hardest things to teach to people when dealing with any type of string manipulation environment.
I really like the way the O'reilly books handle it because they use a standard uniform convention that makes a lot of sense. should we try to record the conventions we use to explain scripts to each other so that when someone is confused we can point them to a wikipage and say "that's how we do it.". Or should we just let standards evolve t meet situations as needed? On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Seth Cohn wrote: > > Is this > > $ cat < file > | md5sum > > where <>| are included or is <file> replaced > > with a file name and |md5sum a > > typo? > > it is: > > cat file |md5sum > > the <file> was a poor choice considering unix > using both of those. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com >
