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From: milgr%brandeis.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET (Marc Milgram)
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Subject: Re: C-shell idiosyncracy ??
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 04:23:19 EST
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Subject: Re: C-shell idiosyncracy ??

> It seems that I can redirect the output of a C-shell command
> to a file, but I cannot pipe it to some other command. Logically,
> this should not have happened. Anyway, the following happens
> for C-shell as well as for korn-shell.
> 
> {samsun} jobs
> [1]  + Stopped		emacs foo
> {samsun} jobs > bar
In this case, csh redirects its own output, then finds what jobs it is
running.

But:
> {samsun} cat bar
> [1]  + Stopped		emacs foo
> {samsun} jobs | more
> {samsun}
>
In this case, csh finds there is a pipe (|) in the command, so it
spawns off a csh which finds that it is not running any subprocessies.


	-Marc Milgram
	 milgr@brandeis.edu.cs.net