[ale] simple piping

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sat Mar 25 09:22:12 EST 2006


David Corbin wrote:
> On Friday 24 March 2006 03:52 pm, Emil Man wrote:
>> heheh found out you cant pipe ls output into cat, never mind
> 
> Of course you can.
> 
> ls | cat
> 
> The question (as others have indicated) is why would you want to?

I can see we're going to have fun with this. The Rube Goldberg of scripts:

ls |tac|cat|tac|perl -ane|awk '{print}'|cut -f0-|sed n|paste

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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