From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 17 08:24:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01098 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:24:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01093 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:24:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA28963; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:21:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:21:35 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199811171621.IAA28963@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: dorey_s@infonie.fr Subject: Re: Need to clear a point on aliases Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811171104.MAA02480@infmail.infonie.fr> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: dorey_s@infonie.fr >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:57:19 +0100 >> 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. The purpose, in this case, is to defer interpretation of the character that is used to specify a pipeline until the alias ("lm", in this case) is used, rather than at the time it is defined. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message