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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.

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