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From: yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPEs
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.171618.22833@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 17:16:18 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.075223.29417@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Nov6.190147.10534@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <7010@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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In article <7010@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
+In article <1990Nov6.190147.10534@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall) writes:
+> ls -l usr:big/ole/directory->more (which = ls -l usr:big/ole/dir -> more)
+
+So long as you make that:
+
+	list usr:big/old/directory->more
+
+Because making - a metacharacter will break UNIX-style command options. Which
+is probably a good thing, IMHO... they're usually the result of laziness on
+the part of the programmer who did the Amiga port.

Of course, that isn't true.  I am not making `-' a metacharacter, I'm making
`->' one.  The shell will grab the `->' before ls ever sees the commandline,
so my example works file.  However, because of the great tonnage of utilities
out there that use Un*x-style switches (Hm.  I guess I refuse to call SOME of
them lazy ;), we do need to avoid making `-' by itself special.

+Peter da Silva.   `-_-'

ken
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