From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 30 15:44: 7 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF7414CAB; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:43:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA55451; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:46:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199906302246.PAA55451@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ac ac.8 ac.c In-Reply-To: from Bill Fumerola at "Jun 30, 1999 06:38:13 pm" To: billf@jade.chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:24:08 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > > > > And if you read my mail the entire way down you'll notice that I mentioned > > > cat(1) as something that includes it in the synopsis, but not in the > > > description. > > > > Taken from the cat(1) manpage's DESCRIPTION section: > > > > The cat utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the > > standard output. The file operands are processed in command line > > order. A single dash represents the standard input. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Time to get my eyeglass perscription checked. > > > I can accept that cat(1) is a bad precedent, but if it's also _your_ > > only point of reference, then it's not making a good case for your > > argument. :-) > > Well, grep doesn't have it, cat does. Something has to be wrong. > DESCRIPTION Grep searches the named input files (or standard input if no files are named, or the file name - is given) for lines ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bill, you're working too hard ;-) ;-) -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message