From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 17 03:21:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA25820 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 03:21:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from infmail.infonie.fr (infmail.infonie.fr [195.242.64.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA25815 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 03:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dorey_s@infonie.fr) From: dorey_s@infonie.fr Received: from infonie.fr (sd1mail [10.1.1.101]) by infmail.infonie.fr (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA02480; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:04:48 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199811171104.MAA02480@infmail.infonie.fr> Subject: Need to clear a point on aliases Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:57:19 +0100 To: "David Wolfskill" Cc: "Steph Gerard" , "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Dorey?=" , "FreeBSD Questions" Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > lm /bin/ls \| more I merely understand what does it do, but why you put a '\' before the '|'. I know that when you put a \ in front of a caracter it says take it as a caracter even if it is a special caracter. In this case why do you need to say that it has to be taken as caracter. Thanx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message