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Article #6323Re: PIPEs
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 1990 18:35
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 1990 18:35
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In article <1990Nov3.073201.8227@agate.berkeley.edu> pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes: > Just that the "|" character is significant in AmigaDos pattern matching. > I'm not quite sure how you'd be certain of distinguishing its use there from > a pipe request. Good point! > > If you don't like that, what do YOU suggest. The version 6 shell and the version 7 (bourne) shell use either '|' or '^' as a pipe character. I understand that at least one Amiga shell requires pipes to have white-space around them. The use of '^' might be a better alternative, even if it will break c-shell history (which is something I want, weird though that might sound to some of you). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: PIPEs Message-ID: <6977@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 3 Nov 90 18:35:52 GMT References: <53407.657565922@atronx.UUCP> <1990Nov3.073201.8227@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 17