Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:41:39 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD User Guide Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.05.9901081339560.102074-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990108125921.28315N-100000@shell1.cybercom.net>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, K. Marsh wrote: > > : cat phonelist.txt | sort > : cat phonelist.txt | sort | more > > > Doesn't sort take a filename as an argument, so that these examples could > just start with > > sort phonelist.txt They sure could, but then you wouldn't be learning how to use a pipe, which was the premise of the example. Kenneth J. Marsh University of Washington durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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