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From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>
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Subject: Re: The FreeBSD User Guide
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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


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