stupid unix commands

Dan Smith "fast screens, loud music, slow car" daniel at island.uu.net
Wed May 2 12:48:50 AEST 1990


[ongoing discussion about "yes" threatening to get out of hand at the
drop of a byte...]

	I've found "yes" does have a use for generating a list of numbers
in a shell script, a la:

	yes "" | cat -n | head -20 | tail -10

				Daniel
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