Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:44:08 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: stephen@missouri.edu Cc: olli@lurza.secnetix.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you (for making the ports less boring). Message-ID: <4e70bdb8.AJO467lneB8GUlld%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4E6FC59C.5090509@missouri.edu> References: <201109131411.p8DEBTGA081124@lurza.secnetix.de> <4E6FC59C.5090509@missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote: > It would never have occurred to me that "echo */*/Makefile*" > works when "grep xxx */*/Makefile*". Is that because "echo" > is a builtin command in csh (which is what I use)? I don't know, but I can think of no better explanation. > I notice "/bin/echo */*/Makefile*" doesn't work. The same (builtin echo works, /bin/echo not) happens in /bin/sh, and in bash. > Is this documented somewhere? Not that I know of.
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