Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:54:24 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au> Cc: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: grep question Message-ID: <19990228085425.7183.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990227190209.5581A-100000@garfield> of Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:09:11 %2B1100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990227190209.5581A-100000@garfield>
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> > Holy bejebees bat# man grep > Your manual is obviously better than mine. No, but he did tell you the wrong manual. The manual of interest is the manual for whatever shell you are using. Unix commands (on all flavours of Unix) don't get to see the command lines that you type -- they see whatever the shell gives them and you have to know what your shell does with what you type. The usual way to find this out is with the echo command. > "FreeBSD isn't evil, they just make > really crappy manuals." This is a very poorly-informed comment. Until you understand something you cannot have a useful opinion about it. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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