Peng Yu wrote:
> By discouraging people from using it for a long period (say 10 years),
> its support can be dropped eventually which will reduce future
> maintenance costs of this duplicate code.
Removing it would needlessly break old scripts. It used to be the
only way to create named pipes. I
> I’d prefer to have reliable tools to convert csv to tsv and tsv to csv
If someone writes a new tool, could it be general enough to support any
unicode-separated format, for example psv:
https://paulfitz.github.io/2017/01/24/the-year-of-poop-on-the-desktop.html ?
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 4:52 PM Bob Proulx wrote:
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> Peng Yu wrote:
> > It seems that both `mkfifo` and `mknod ... p` can create a fifo. What
> > is the difference between them? Thanks.
>
> The mknod utility existed "for a decade" in Unix (don't quote me on
> that vague time statement) before mkf
✓ Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor wrote:
> Actually I’d prefer to have reliable tools to convert csv to tsv and tsv to
> csv, replacing tabs and newlines by \t \n and to be able to use all
> standard tools
I would find this approach the better direction, more desirable, and
more flexible too.
Peng Yu wrote:
> It seems that both `mkfifo` and `mknod ... p` can create a fifo. What
> is the difference between them? Thanks.
The mknod utility existed "for a decade" in Unix (don't quote me on
that vague time statement) before mkfifo existed. The mknod utility
existed in Unix v7 as a thin wra
