From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 07:43:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A953416A401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:43:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CBAF13C491 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:43:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so713174wxc for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:43:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=g7Rw2c5DhExjnP2+OQBSmrwj50aTLRjlsmRP7Ibe0OOUD3VrWCXkn/pNhqOie1GA9/p4iio+MaIWAqiw8gYfenIL7fbCYRlO/MHvlNmP3qe04ogBlH73hrRVQUZAWDDHFXQe/4P5PYDFs2cTFmEPDRS+NgGao6yt7XDPg2t4sQc= Received: by 10.70.47.19 with SMTP id u19mr5524560wxu.1169797418689; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:43:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.52.12 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:43:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:43:38 -0500 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" To: "youshi10@u.washington.edu" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] What does this pipe do? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:43:39 -0000 On 1/25/07, youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > > Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :). > > One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all > shells? Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and > (t)csh constructs. Yes Ksh is very flexible and has been around for long time, You can really code in Ksh as we speak in English language. I learnt right off the scratch completely from man ksh . It provides good debug capability with set -x option, it prints the commands as it does and y o u can view the stdout, stdin and stder regards Dak > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >