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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /dev/stdin:  why not call it "-"?
Message-ID: <7009@alice.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 23:11:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 23:11:06 1987
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In article <414@murphy.UUCP>, dave@murphy.UUCP writes:
> Why not just make the shell recognize "-" by itself as a special argument and
> have it substitute "/dev/stdin"?  The only problem that this would cause that
> I can think of is that you'd have to quote it to use it as the subtraction
> operator to expr, for instance.



echo This is a dubious suggestion - please rethink it.