Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:11:38 -0700 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: mpp@mpp.minn.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: line command Message-ID: <9601312311.AA20294@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199601312045.OAA05577@mpp.minn.net>
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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.minn.net> writes:
Mike> I'm trying to get some of the scripts in
Mike> /usr/src/share/man/tools working, and some of them use a
Mike> "line" command. Does anyone have any idea what this command
Mike> is supposed to do, and what the else I might use in its
Mike> place?
Reads up to newline or EOF on standard input and echos the read data
to standard output. Non-POSIX version supports a -t <timeout> option.
Replace with `read' in sh, $< in csh, others in other shells.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted
line. He caught every other fish. -- Steven Wright
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