To the best of my knowledge, | pipes the output of one program and puts it into the input of another. So if you do: ls | more, it takes the output of ls and puts it into more, which allows you to view the output one screen at a time. This also works for some dos command line items.
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > > Garth Wallace wrote: > >>"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> >>>The characters :: are somewhat equivilent to Unix |, or PC's / >>> >>Actually, PCs use "\" and UNIX uses "/", but that's picking nits. >> >>"|" on UNIX is for output redirection. >> > > Its been a while since I've even turned on a PC (Windows 3.1.1 days) for > any length of time. As for Unix I know i have seen items using "|" for something. > > Guess If I get OS-X I'd better learn <grin>. > >
