From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 12 19:14:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E968E14D4D for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA33709; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:12:13 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:12:12 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shell pipeline bug In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Simplified example: > > sh -c "jot 6000 | cat | head" Not knowing what jot(1) was, I read the man page. The synopsis says: SYNOPSIS jot [-cnr] [-b word] [-w word] [-s string] [-p precision] [reps [begin ^ [end [s]]]] ^ ...so I type in: $ jot usage: jot [-cnr] [-b word] [-w word] [-s string] [-p precision] [reps [begin [end [s]]]] ^ ^ Is my understanding correct that options in square brackets are optional? -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message