From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 08:23:08 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2405130731370.15285@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240512072903.DA7E12064E@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
On Sun, 12 May 2024, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> As an example of pushing the limit of Unix pipes, I found this awkward
> to read, e.g. the noise of the redundant backslash after an end-of-line
> pipe.
Y'know, I've been writing "| \" for donkeys' (well, "^ \" early in the
game), and I never knew...
I suppose I could write a Perl script to modify them.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-12 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-10 16:36 [COFF] " Clem Cole
2024-05-10 23:02 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-05-11 9:18 ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-11 21:18 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-05-11 21:33 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-10 23:22 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Nevin Liber
2024-05-11 9:31 ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-11 12:51 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " John P. Linderman
2024-05-11 13:12 ` Dan Cross
2024-05-11 14:41 ` Bakul Shah via COFF
2024-05-11 15:45 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2024-05-11 17:18 ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-11 21:35 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Theodore Ts'o
2024-05-12 7:13 ` Gergely Buday
2024-05-12 7:29 ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-12 22:23 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2024-05-11 19:24 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2024-05-13 6:20 ` [COFF] " Arno Griffioen via COFF
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