Re: RFA: >, >>, and "tee" operators

Grant Edwards
2002-07-23T20:58:04Z

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:24:15PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>
> >> transcript > FILE
> >> transcript >> FILE
> >> transcript | COMMAND
>
> Daniel> I don't like this syntax very much. It looks too much like
> Daniel> dumping the output of a command ("transcript") to the file,
> Daniel> not like a redirection for the future output.
>
> Good point.
>
> Daniel> Also - is piping to a command actually useful?

It would be to me occasionally, though output to a file is 95%
as good. The one thing I usually need to be able to do is to
put the output of a single command (typically "print") into a
file.

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Grant Edwards
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