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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: reverse-tee, or, merging stdout's
Message-ID: <7256@segue.segue.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 03:20:52 GMT
References: <819@llnl.LLNL.GOV> <1991Apr19.182517.199@rathe.cs.umn.edu> <7204@segue.segue.com> <REARL.91Apr22025829@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Reply-To: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
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In article <REARL.91Apr22025829@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rearl@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Robert Earl) writes:
>In article <7204@segue.segue.com> jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter) writes:
>|   >  prog1 arg1 arg2 | (cat ; prog2 arg3 arg4 arg5) | prog3
>|
>|      prog1 arg1 arg2 | (cat - ; prog2 arg3 arg4 arg5) | prog3
>
>I fail to see a difference between these two.  `cat' with no arguments
>implies `cat -'.

Right.  I hallucinated.