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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  (was: How wrong is MS-DOS?)
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.230313.4737@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 14 Jan 91 23:03:13 GMT
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>I'm not sure if the shell is really a 'tool', however.  I don't think
>ksh, bash, and tcsh follow the "one tool = one simple function"
>paradigm.  The shell is more of an application IMHO.

Perhaps, but people often forget that the shell is a nice place to pipe
a stream of commands. I experienced an epiphany when I saw a guru do

	ls *.pas | sed 's/\(.*\).pas/mv & \1.p/' | sh

And another, reparing a root filesystem with cat corrupted, did

	sh -nv file

to view the file.

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