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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Thu,  8 Mar 2007 15:24:25 +0000
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in early unix days, someone added a short shell script `pip' to the unix system
i used. the script amounted to

	echo pipes exist!

i suppose it was intended to educate the former rsx-11 users.
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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
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that's a unixism.  plan 9 uses "lookman".

- erik

On Thu Mar  8 10:07:36 EST 2007, leimy2k@gmail.com wrote:
> On 3/8/07, matt <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > "How do I find out what commands I can use?"
> > ls /bin
> >
> >
> >
> think about what you want to do and use apropos.
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