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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:54:15 +1100
From:      Greg Lane <gregory.lane@anu.edu.au>
To:        Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sshd Banner option
Message-ID:  <20020110165415.A29024@nucl03.anu.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <200201100540.g0A5eKO09982@fedde.littleton.co.us>; from chris@fedde.littleton.co.us on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:20PM -0700
References:  <20020110153936.A28566@nucl03.anu.edu.au> <200201100540.g0A5eKO09982@fedde.littleton.co.us>

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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:20PM -0700, Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:39:36 +1100  Greg Lane wrote:
>  +------------------
>  | 1>xxxxx@yyyyy:~$ more /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep Banner
>  +------------------
> 
> This is not intended as a slam on anyone.  I just want to point out
> that this command line is a little odd.  More(1) will work this way
> but but that is kind of a degradation of it's main function as a
> pager.  cat(1) is the more canonical way to dump files into pipes.
> The most common way to write this command line is to use grep
> directly:
> 
>     grep Banner /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> 

Yeah, but when you've just typed "more" to use its main 
function as a pager to scroll through and find the relevant 
line, its pretty easy to bring back the command and add 
a grep on the end isn't it.....

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