From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] EOF on pipes?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 06:56:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201802251356.w1PDu8jJ028334@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn2se8TBgwxYyH7U7qWKMqAfUiZo0HXx7F0PGfFYGYo0uA@mail.gmail.com>
George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:
> Designing things is hard. I guess the reality is, you do the bare
> minimum neccessary to make it work. Anything else is adding cost.
Amen!
> (I hesitate to say <- and -> might have worked too. few pipes are
> bi-directional. Also, the = is being used in ls -lF to denote what
> things are non-normal files...)
The = as part of the -F option originates from BSD. It was in 4.2 for sure
(circa 1983); I don't know if it appeared any earlier. But this is
close to 10 years after | was invented for pipes.
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-25 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-25 13:07 Doug McIlroy
2018-02-25 13:16 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-25 13:56 ` arnold [this message]
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2018-02-27 5:04 Rudi Blom
2018-02-27 5:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-25 0:53 Norman Wilson
2018-02-25 16:29 ` Paul Winalski
2018-02-25 22:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-02-25 23:18 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-26 2:39 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-24 21:33 Dave Horsfall
2018-02-24 23:13 ` Ron Natalie
2018-02-24 23:42 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-24 23:46 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-02-24 23:46 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-02-26 16:03 ` Rudi Blom
2018-02-26 16:58 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-26 17:19 ` Larry McVoy
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