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Date: Sat,  5 Nov 2005 21:04:39 +0000
From: Gabriel Diaz <gabidiaz@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme and the pipe command
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Hi

It works for me.

If i put a number on each line and then Edit ,|sort -n i get numbers sorted=
.
(you need to have the last line with a \n to avoid an error message from
sort)

Gabi


2005/11/5, Georg Neis <gn@oglaroon.de>:
>
> Acme's man page says about Edit:
> Treat the argument as a text editing command in the style of sam(1).
> The full Sam language is implemented except for the commands k, n, q,
> and !.
>
> However, it seems that sam's pipe command doesn't work. For example,
> Edit ,|sort
> removes all lines instead of sorting them.
>
> Thanks to Uriel I now know that acme has its own | command. But why this
> exception? It's even undocumented.
>
> Regards,
> Georg
>

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Hi<br>
<br>
It works for me.<br>
<br>
If i put a number on each line and then Edit ,|sort -n i get numbers sorted=
.<br>
(you need to have the last line with a&nbsp; \n to avoid an error message f=
rom sort)<br>
<br>
Gabi<br>
<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">2005/11/5, Georg Neis &lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:gn@oglaroon.de">gn@oglaroon.de</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote class=
=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin=
: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Acme's man page says about Edit:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Treat the argum=
ent as a text editing command in the style of sam(1).<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=
&nbsp;The full Sam language is implemented except for the commands k, n, q,=
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and !.<br><br>However, it seems that sam's pipe=
 command doesn't work.&nbsp;&nbsp;For example,
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Edit ,|sort<br>removes all lines instead of sor=
ting them.<br><br>Thanks to Uriel I now know that acme has its own | comman=
d.&nbsp;&nbsp;But why this<br>exception?&nbsp;&nbsp;It's even undocumented.=
<br><br>Regards,<br>Georg<br></blockquote>
</div><br>

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