Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:9588 comp.unix.questions:7761 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pixar!unicom!greywolf From: greywolf@unicom.UUCP (greywolf) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: grep replacement Keywords: see figure 1. Message-ID: <373@unicom.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 21:54:58 GMT References: <7962@alice.UUCP> <1304@ark.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: greywolf@unicom.UUCP (greywolf) Organization: UNIx at the College Of Marin, Kentfield, CA Lines: 22 In article <1304@ark.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: # In article <7962@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP writes: # \... # \5) divert matching lines onto one fd, nonmatching onto another. # \ sorry, run grep twice. # # Come on! The diversion is no problem at all to implement, and it can be very # useful (you cannot run grep twice on stdin, without use of temporary files). # Regards. Essentially, I think with respect to the tool -flag concept, their attitude there is "See figure 1." This is ESPECIALLY true when they have the opportunity to say "NIH"! (Sounds like the knights from Monty Python: The Search for the Holy Grail). For those of you who do not understand "See figure 1.", I am sure that there are some people inside AT&T who would be happy to tell you. They tell me every month on my phone bill. # -- # South-Africa: |Maarten Litmaath @ Free U Amsterdam: # revival of the Third Reich |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!ark!maart --