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From: andy@coma.UUCP (Andreas Lampen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Your favourite UNIX pipe ?
Keywords: pipe
Message-ID: <690@coma.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 90 12:57:16 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Please send me your most favourite (sophisticated, cryptic, funny) pipe !

I want to open the list with a quite common one:
  soelim foo.ms | refer -sAD -l4,2 | pic | troff -Talw -ms | tps | lpr -Plw

and a cross machine pipe:
  tar cf - | dd bs=20k | rsh coma "cd blubber; dd bs=20k | tar xf -"

We are currently working on a concept for an object oriented shell for
UNIX and (of course) ran into difficulties when trying to model the
pipe mechanism. We came up with a first idea but soon found an example
where this didn't work ... .

Now, this inquiry shall set up a list of pipes that helps us to validate
our ideas. Additionally, I think such a list will be quite interesting
for UNIX users. I will post a summary anyway.

Thanks in advance,
		   Andy
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  Andreas Lampen, Tech. Univ. Berlin
      andy@coma.cs.tu-berlin.de