Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!andrew From: andrew@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: grep replacement Summary: don't complain to me about pipelines Message-ID: <7951@alice.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 88 22:04:50 GMT References: <136@rubmez.UUCP> <449@happym.UUCP> <7944@alice.UUCP> <23133@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 10 > Almost, unless the original input was produced by a pipeline, in which > case this (putative) post-processor can't help unless you tee the mess > to a temp file, yup, mess is the right word. > Or maybe only us Neanderthals are interested in tools which work on > pipes? Have they gone out of style? the problem is in the limited plumbing available in the current flock of shells. i mean, the context stuff is exactly the same issue as glob expansion; you either build into an ad hoc set of programs or let one program do it.