Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!ukma!gatech!udel!mmdf From: DEDOUREK%UNB.CA@CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Re: What does this do? Message-ID: <6847@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 18 Jan 89 13:21:34 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 13 > > z!| Of course, this ends with a pipe symbol. The shell will prompt for the rest of the pipe-line. This allows typing ls | pr as ls | pr A perhaps little known fact is that the shell recognizes the pipe symbol without requiring surrounding blanks, thus ls|pr is ls | pr Or have I missed something?