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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: russcox@gmail.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] tip'o'day -- hack
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:16:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3ee47ddf04e933a8ba09d415a81a936@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a050421160811a173db@mail.gmail.com>

> you're supposed to use rx for this.
> 
> echo hello | rx wc | tr '0-9'
> 
> cpu is for interactive sessions, hence the /dev/cons.

it's true that rx does this (and without the 9p overhead too), but you
don't get /mnt/term with rx, and that's sometimes crucial.



      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-21 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-21 22:42 Tim Newsham
2005-04-21 23:03 ` David Leimbach
2005-04-21 23:07 ` rog
2005-04-21 23:08   ` Russ Cox
2005-04-21 23:16     ` rog [this message]

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