Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 06:35:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Hickum <yh2789@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How do yo do that cool pipe | trick Message-ID: <20010505133534.30774.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com>
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It doesn't work like I think it's going to. newgate[/etc]> grep -ls hosts * | vi ex/vi: Vi's standard input and output must be a terminal newgate[/etc]> vi | grep -ls hosts * host.conf hosts.allow hosts.equiv hosts.lpd printcap services ex/vi: Vi's standard input and output must be a terminal What's a terminal? I did the man pipe and man xargs but man pages aren't any good unless you don't need them. What kind of people write like that. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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