Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo From: geo@watarts.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: > and >> in rsh Message-ID: <1907@watarts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jul-83 18:39:52 EDT Article-I.D.: watarts.1907 Posted: Mon Jul 4 18:39:52 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Jul-83 23:53:36 EDT References: rlgvax.753 Lines: 11 In his original article Jeff Kegler asks why not eliminate < and > from the shell and have it determine what you mean by context. I don't see any advantadge in Jeff's scheme. It seems to me his scheme would break down over shell procedures. he give the example: cat a b c | tee hold | sort -n > sorted could be written as (a; b; c) | hold | sort -n | sorted If a, b, or c were shell procedures, acording to his syntax they would be invoked rather than cat'ed.