Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site twitch.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!hocad!twitch!grt From: grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: How 'p' works. Message-ID: <154@twitch.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 18:34:10 EST Article-I.D.: twitch.154 Posted: Mon Dec 10 18:34:10 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 03:54:25 EST References: <6522@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel Lines: 14 > > Today I was looking for some old news articles. I cd'ed to > > the appropriate news directory and typed: > > > > p `egrep -l pattern *` > > > > As it turned out, the pattern wasn't found in any of the > > articles. It seems that 'p' must be broken. I have not seen it but use 'pgr', which apparently does the same type of paging. If an empty file is specified on the command line or piped to it, 'pgr' says 'line 0:' and is ready to exit. -- George Tomasevich, ihnp4!{twitch|spastic}!grt AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ