From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 5 6:35:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10907.mail.yahoo.com (web10907.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D701637B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 06:35:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yh2789@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010505133534.30774.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.43.109.192] by web10907.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 05 May 2001 06:35:34 PDT Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 06:35:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Hickum Subject: How do yo do that cool pipe | trick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It doesn't work like I think it's going to. newgate[/etc]> grep -ls hosts * | vi ex/vi: Vi's standard input and output must be a terminal newgate[/etc]> vi | grep -ls hosts * host.conf hosts.allow hosts.equiv hosts.lpd printcap services ex/vi: Vi's standard input and output must be a terminal What's a terminal? I did the man pipe and man xargs but man pages aren't any good unless you don't need them. What kind of people write like that. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message