From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-relay-1.mv.us.adobe.com ([130.248.1.1]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2699>; Fri, 10 Jul 1992 12:34:56 -0400 Received: by mail-relay-1.mv.us.adobe.com; id AA03437; Fri, 10 Jul 92 09:34:44 -0700 Received: from utopia.adobe.com by adobe.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11090; Fri, 10 Jul 92 09:34:42 PDT Received: by utopia.adobe.com (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NeXT-2.0) id AA01337; Fri, 10 Jul 92 09:35:34 PDT Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1992 12:35:34 -0400 From: haahr@adobe.com Message-Id: <9207101635.AA01337@utopia.adobe.com> To: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: Y-shaped pipeline { why |[4] rev } |[5] cat -n # this does mean that the stdout of rev and cat will be intermixed # and you should hope that rev doesn't put anything out on fd 5.