wasting VM: the Sun philosophy (was Re: grep replacement)

[Jacob Gore]

/ comp.unix.wizards / mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) / Jun 26, 1988 /
In article <8167 at ncoast.UUCP>, allbery at ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>... the /dev/stdin point was first brought up as follows:
>
>> 22) support a filename of - to mean standard input.
>> 	a unix without /dev/stdin is largely bogus but as a sop to the poor
>> 	barstards having to work on BSD, gre will support -
>> 	as stdin (at least for a while).

Well, if it's going to support "-" anyway:

	ln -s - /dev/stdin

:-)

Jacob