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To the *nix-heads: With all the back and forth that was going on over which command line is better, I'd like to ask a question about the piping and redirection on the *nix side of things. I'm familiar with the concepts, but I'm not clear on how the issue of non-streamfile manipulation would be handled by various *nix shells. That is, under QSHELL, I can pretty much pipe the output of one command into another just as I could under just about any other *nix shell. And if I don't have a particular utility, I can build my own or possibly port one so that I'll have the same utilities that are available elsewhere. Disregarding any fancy facilities some great shell might have beyond just piping and redirection, on other systems, how do basic commands/utilities such as sed and grep handle files that aren't streamfiles? That is, traditional OS/400 commands commonly wouldn't support something like piping because they generally rely on a database record format. Is it even meaningful to make comparisons outside of QSHELL? Tom Liotta -- -- Tom Liotta The PowerTech Group, Inc. 19426 68th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032 Phone 253-872-7788 x313 Fax 253-872-7904 http://www.powertechgroup.com __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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