Your favourite UNIX pipe ?
Andreas Lampen
andy at coma.UUCP
Wed May 9 22:57:16 AEST 1990
Please send me your most favourite (sophisticated, cryptic, funny) pipe !
I want to open the list with a quite common one:
soelim foo.ms | refer -sAD -l4,2 | pic | troff -Talw -ms | tps | lpr -Plw
and a cross machine pipe:
tar cf - | dd bs=20k | rsh coma "cd blubber; dd bs=20k | tar xf -"
We are currently working on a concept for an object oriented shell for
UNIX and (of course) ran into difficulties when trying to model the
pipe mechanism. We came up with a first idea but soon found an example
where this didn't work ... .
Now, this inquiry shall set up a list of pipes that helps us to validate
our ideas. Additionally, I think such a list will be quite interesting
for UNIX users. I will post a summary anyway.
Thanks in advance,
Andy
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Andreas Lampen, Tech. Univ. Berlin
andy at coma.cs.tu-berlin.de
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