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From: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith "fast screens, loud music, slow car")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: stupid unix commands
Message-ID: <1574@island.uu.net>
Date: 2 May 90 02:48:50 GMT
References: <15633@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <4108@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
Reply-To: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith)
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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[ongoing discussion about "yes" threatening to get out of hand at the
drop of a byte...]

	I've found "yes" does have a use for generating a list of numbers
in a shell script, a la:

	yes "" | cat -n | head -20 | tail -10

				Daniel
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