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From: clh@seer.UUCP (Chris Hatch)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Zoo and files like 0e051642
Message-ID: <672@seer.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 90 11:57:08 GMT
References: <21700014@sunc7> <21700015@sunc7>
Organization: Brad Lanam  Alamo, CA
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In article <21700015@sunc7> fireman@sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Actually, I should be asking, is there an easier way than the way I'm doing
>it now as in my batch file below:
>
>stuff / -modified ! -name *.bak ! -name temp.* | zoo aIunP diffback
>zoo -delete diffback 0-9

Well, that explains where the files came from... When you do piping under
MS-DOS, it actually creates a temporary file with the piped information. I
don't see why you would get TWO files, though. Unless stuff creates it's
own temporary file?