From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: [TUHS] redirection wildness in v7
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:39:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9b371ef-3018-1f1e-baa3-318796b06b5f@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711100835060.4766@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 11/9/17 4:36 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
>>> $ <word | sed 20q
>>
>> A null command consisting of only a redirection (effectively a no-op).
>
> With the side-effect of opening "word" (which could be a device).
Quite true. The redirection is the only thing that happens.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-09 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-09 14:34 Will Senn
2017-11-09 15:04 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-09 15:38 ` Will Senn
2017-11-20 23:38 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-09 15:30 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-09 21:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-09 21:39 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2017-11-09 15:30 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-09 15:42 ` Will Senn
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