On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:14:33 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > It all depends on what the command's purpose is for, and how it's > designed to be chained with other commands (cat for example).
They're almost all designed to be chained with other commands. Even diff and ed are designed to work together in a pipe; the output from "diff -e" can be piped into ed to make ed apply changes to a file. Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list