[NTLUG:Discuss] bash question

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Wed Sep 12 22:40:08 CDT 2001


On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Fred James wrote:

> A tip of the hat, and a "from the heart" thank you.
> This thread brought forth such cool stuff - I may smile for a week.

> ...make every program a filter...

TIMTOWTDI did not originate with perl although the acromyn may
have.

I think of my tendency to use backtick 'for' loops (which
actually open an xargs type pipe in the subshell) as filters
-- which backtick expressions themselves are often full of
filters using pipes.

Mike Guncarz and The Unix Philosophy -- Amazon link at:

  http://www.owlriver.com/books.html?ORC_Form=books.txt#sa

Worth a read -- ask your local library to order it is, so that
it may be found by others in the future.

-- Russ Herrold





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