From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96122155F for ; Mon, 13 May 2024 00:23:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9DF43668; Mon, 13 May 2024 08:23:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhmta19.bpe.bigpond.com (exhmta19.bpe.bigpond.com [203.42.40.163]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DE8B43663 for ; Mon, 13 May 2024 08:23:13 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhprdcmr11 by exhprdomr19 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1s6Hb5-0002H0-0x for coff@tuhs.org; Mon, 13 May 2024 08:23:11 +1000 Received: from [110.141.193.233] (helo=aneurin.horsfall.org) by exhprdcmr11 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1s6Hb5-0008l5-0W for coff@tuhs.org; Mon, 13 May 2024 08:23:11 +1000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 44CMNATP045811 for ; Mon, 13 May 2024 08:23:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 44CMN9CL045808 for ; Mon, 13 May 2024 08:23:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 08:23:08 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: Computer Old Farts Followers In-Reply-To: <20240512072903.DA7E12064E@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <20240511213532.GB8330@mit.edu> <20240512072903.DA7E12064E@orac.inputplus.co.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-tce-ares-id: e{89e39fc1-0e28-472d-b585-9b609c356579}1 X-tce-spam-action: no action X-tce-spam-score: 0.0 X-Cm-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=f9tOBvyM c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=6641414f a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:117 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:17 a=FhynnQm3S41cOyde:21 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=TpHVaj0NuXgA:10 a=ChD2-OJyf37FqHzsg4MA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-Cm-Envelope: MS4xfJ5auPAoRPcwSWPgxJOTUnBpqGULMSJB5Jbmx8dez969mAHXTBqlfJ04ii0gaAeH7U+WpJWxmUv+C2i1NgCX4qBdJ1uQYTYiDzEMFvVNtW6608T7J/EK ADVfjS5nvlbDM320jHxZpIXx+Ve9eYXeXURgEFcSrOVwWxQXmWk6gJ7X Message-ID-Hash: YX6QLFDT7DR2PXOU3LA372EUYFWZKH4K X-Message-ID-Hash: YX6QLFDT7DR2PXOU3LA372EUYFWZKH4K X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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