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From: hunt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (HUNT LEE CAMERON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Little question about 'Run' and pipes...
Keywords: ARP, ConMan, pipe, UN*X, Shell
Message-ID: <25395@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 30 Aug 90 06:18:29 GMT
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Reply-To: hunt@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (HUNT LEE CAMERON)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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I'm using ARP v. 1.3 with ConMan v.1.3.  I'm used to UN*X's shell piping
where one can say:

	ls -alR * | fgrep .zoo 

which will look for and print in "long" format all occurences
of ".zoo" in the current directory and all sub-directories.


Hoping to be able to accomplish the same on my Amiga, I tried this:

	dir files size all * | search STDIN .zoo

which works.  (I know that one can also say:

	search * *.zoo all quick file

which does the same same, except it returns the list *in order*
whereas dir seems to present the files as they are on the disk,
and also, alas, the files size is missing.)


BUT, I wanted to be clever and run that in the background, in UN*X:

	ls -alR * | fgrep .zoo &

HOWEVER, on the Amiga, one would expect it to be:

	run dir files size all * | search STDIN .zoo

which *doesn't* work.  It appears that the run applies only to the
"dir" command and ignores the search command.

So, I'd like to know if there's any way to get the "run" command to
include both commands of the pipe, like UN*X does.

Thanks much,


--Lee
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