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From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Your favourite UNIX-pipe (summary)
Keywords: pipe
Message-ID: <244@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 9 Aug 90 15:49:27 GMT
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tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:

>>How about including useful short pipes (which could make our lives
>>(novices) a little easier (and productive).
>What have I been doing lately in this big directory?
>ls -lt | head

Yup, VERY useful - but, more portably (not everybody has "head"):
		ls -lt | sed 11q
(note how the '1' and 'q' are nicely arranged near each other on your
keyboard, just for this purpose...:-)

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