Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :). One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all shells? Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and (t)csh constructs. Ye

[OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-25 Thread youshi10
Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :). One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all shells? Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and (t)csh constructs. Thanks again! -Garrett _

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > Just for completeness, ">&" (file) and ">|" (pipe) are also > ^^ Sorry, that was just a typo. I meant ">&" and "|&", of course. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co.

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-24 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Oliver Fromme thusly... > > Just for completeness, ">&" (file) and ">|" (pipe) are also ^^ ^^ > supported by zsh (which is a bourne-shell like sh, ksh or bash). The ">|" constr

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
Robert Huff wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I know this is a Unix shell command, and off-topic, but I'm > > curious. I've been reading a few 'make' commands at work that end > > in "|&" and I was wondering if that redirection string is > > synonymous to "| /dev/stdout". > >

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do? (fwd)

2007-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Robert Huff wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I know this is a Unix shell command, and off-topic, but I'm > >> curious. I've been reading a few 'make' commands at work that end > >> in "|&" and I was wondering if th

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do? (fwd)

2007-01-23 Thread youshi10
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Robert Huff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this is a Unix shell command, and off-topic, but I'm curious. I've been reading a few 'make' commands at work that end in "|&" and I was wondering if that redirection string is synonymous to "| /dev/stdout".

[OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I know this is a Unix shell command, and off-topic, but I'm > curious. I've been reading a few 'make' commands at work that end > in "|&" and I was wondering if that redirection string is > synonymous to "| /dev/stdout". That's (t)csh-speak for "send both

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a Unix shell command, and off-topic, but I'm curious. I've been reading a few 'make' commands at work that end in "|&" and I was wondering if that redirection string is synonymous to "| /dev/stdout". In csh/tcsh shells, t

[OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-23 Thread youshi10
I know this is a Unix shell command, and off-topic, but I'm curious. I've been reading a few 'make' commands at work that end in "|&" and I was wondering if that redirection string is synonymous to "| /dev/stdout". Thanks, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questi