From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 19:08:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03990 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anugpo.anu.edu.au (anugpo.anu.edu.au [150.203.2.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03972 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from life.anu.edu.au (life.anu.edu.au [150.203.38.74]) by anugpo.anu.edu.au (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA16419 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:08:00 +1000 (EST) Received: from poty.anu.edu.au (rsbs13.anu.edu.au) by life.anu.edu.au (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22727; Tue, 22 Oct 96 12:07:59 EST Received: by poty.anu.edu.au (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA01113; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:07:57 +1000 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:07:57 +1000 From: peterm@life.anu.edu.au (Peter A Minogue) Message-Id: <199610220207.MAA01113@poty.anu.edu.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: psif script and printf? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm tring to setup a text filter using the manual documentation on seting up filters using psif and noticed in the bourne script the following; printf "\004" and && What is this printf and &&? printf is not a /bin/sh command how does it work? I'm getting the prinf not found message whe it runs. Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Minogue Peter.Minogue@anu.edu.au IT and Unix Support, Computer Unit Research School of Biological Sciences Tel: 06 279 8403 or 4436 Australian National University, Canberra Fax: 06 249 4891 -----------------------------------------------------------------------