From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8119 invoked from network); 26 May 1998 19:48:45 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 26 May 1998 19:48:45 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA04316; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:40:48 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 15:38:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <980526123852.ZM19469@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 12:38:52 -0700 In-Reply-To: Comments: In reply to matthi@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE (Matthias Kopfermann) "Re: pipelines and &&" (May 26, 8:01pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: matthi@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE (Matthias Kopfermann), zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: pipelines and && MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"UW29y1.0.X01.3fnQr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1550 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On May 26, 8:01pm, Matthias Kopfermann wrote: } Subject: Re: pipelines and && } } disappointing! i thought that was a unique zsh-feature which did } not work because i was doing something wrong. What, exactly, would you expect it to do? Your original example was ls | wc && | less The closest thing I can imagine to what that might mean is equivalent to coproc cat ls >&p | wc && less <&p which doesn't quite work right because the coproc doesn't exit after "ls" finishes writing to it, but gives you the idea. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com