At 07:28 +0800 15 Sep 1999, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I sometimes use the form
> cat ... | grep
> to mask the names of the source files from grep.
That's a valid reason to do that for one time commands where it doesn't
pay to check the man page. But, for a script that will be
> At 14:12 9/14/99 -0400, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:
> >Frank Heldt wrote:
> >> i looked over the latest initscripts rpm from rawhide and saw some
> >> constructs like
> >> "cat file | grep expression" in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
> >>
> >> Well, don't you thing a simple "grep expression file" is easie
> >> "cat file | grep expression" in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
>
> Huh? I don't follow the connection from the question to the response
Heh...well that qualifies on my part for... DOH! *slaps forehead*
You are right.
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At 14:12 9/14/99 -0400, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:
>Frank Heldt wrote:
>> i looked over the latest initscripts rpm from rawhide and saw some
>> constructs like
>> "cat file | grep expression" in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
>>
>> Well, don't you thing a simple "grep expression file" is easier & faster ?
>
Frank Heldt wrote:
> i looked over the latest initscripts rpm from rawhide and saw some
> constructs like
> "cat file | grep expression" in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
>
> Well, don't you thing a simple "grep expression file" is easier & faster ?
Well you to to make sure that initscripts only use util
