Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: PIPEs Message-ID: <7005@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 7 Nov 90 14:00:59 GMT References: <1990Nov4.072423.408@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Nov4.150403.28982@cbnewsc.att.com> <6990@sugar.hackercorp.com> <2641@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 16 In article <2641@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> al158305@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila) writes: > And what's this about using + for piping comands?? Don't you know that > that's the char for indicating that the next is a command (in run's case) > or more arguments... Right, which is why I came up with the idea for a "pipe" command that works like "run", and will provide piping for all shells and Amigas: pipe cmd1 args + cmd2 args + cmd3 args Solves the metacharacter conflict problem nicely. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .