Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!scott From: scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: stupid unix commands Message-ID: Date: 4 May 90 00:36:10 GMT References: <15633@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <4108@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> <1574@island.uu.net> <1990May2.170711.16545@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Lines: 25 In-reply-to: jik@athena.mit.edu's message of 2 May 90 17:07:11 GMT > |> I've found "yes" does have a use for generating a list of numbers > |> in a shell script, a la: Shell? > |> yes "" | cat -n | head -20 | tail -10 > Perhaps you should consider using the right tool for the job.... What > you do here in 4 processes and a whole bunch of context switching, I can > do in one: > jot 10 11 And people say I don't have a sense of humor..... Any use of ``yes,'' in my opinion, is humorous [I may be wrong... but I thought that original post was an attempt at humor... and I laughed for a good minute when I read it!] I hope I was mistaken...... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game design requests to -----------------------------------------------------------------------------