From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 16:16:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A384C37B91B; Mon, 8 May 2000 16:16:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Hamilton-ppp44812.sympatico.ca (ppp18393.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.73]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA22845; Mon, 8 May 2000 19:22:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by Hamilton-ppp44812.sympatico.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA48613; Mon, 8 May 2000 19:15:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 19:15:56 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: Bruce Evans , "David O'Brien" , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Small MAKEDEV bug Message-ID: <20000508191556.A47871@Hamilton-ppp44812.sympatico.ca> References: <39174603.3BBBD536@vangelderen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <39174603.3BBBD536@vangelderen.org>; from Jeroen C. van Gelderen on Mon, May 08, 2000 at 06:56:03PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 06:56:03PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > > > > I don't buy it :-). This syntax is similar to a special case of the syntax > > of jot(1). It's better to use jot(1) directly, e.g.: > > > > MAKEDEV $(jot -w da 2 0) # make 2 acd devices beginning at acd0 b$ which jot /usr/bin/jot b$ The jot utility doesn't appear to be in /bin. b$ echo '$(jot -w da 2 0)' | wc 1 5 17 b$ echo $(jot -w da 2 0) | wc 1 2 8 b$ Heh. /me mumbles something about the prototypical UNIX hacker... :-) -- Signature withheld by request of author. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message