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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.unix.programmer, comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Piping to stdin |
| Date | 2023-08-16 03:20 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87msyrhgnq.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <vo5rqj-lpl.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au> <ubg25m$2rr3g$1@dont-email.me> <ubg4no$8kb$1@milena.home.net.it> <ubg6o7$3jrsn$1@news.xmission.com> <ubg853$2ssj8$1@dont-email.me> |
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kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) writes: > I guess the stdin convention '-' is decades old. > It was chosen because they had pick something that > is short and not likely to exist as a real file. If I were doing this all from scratch, I'd consider choosing /- as the convention. It's never a "user" file, and anyone capable of creating it should know how to remove it. -- Ben.
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Re: Piping to stdin Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 13:55 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 14:27 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-14 00:59 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-08-14 03:07 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-14 03:12 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2023-08-14 15:14 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2023-08-15 12:50 +1000
Re: Piping to stdin Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-08-15 04:59 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 23:15 -0700
Re: Piping to stdin Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-08-15 08:50 +0100
Dealing with weird filenames (Was: Piping to stdin) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-15 08:10 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-08-15 15:34 +0200
Re: Piping to stdin Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 19:50 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-15 20:16 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2023-08-16 06:34 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-08-16 17:39 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-16 17:37 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-16 17:43 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-08-16 19:22 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-08-16 20:10 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-08-16 20:11 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-16 13:35 -0700
Re: Piping to stdin Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2023-08-17 13:34 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-17 14:27 -0700
Re: Piping to stdin Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-17 14:51 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2023-08-16 01:37 -0400
Re: Piping to stdin David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-08-16 13:14 +0200
Re: Piping to stdin Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2023-08-15 12:08 -0600
Re: Piping to stdin Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2023-08-16 09:32 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-16 17:27 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2023-08-15 14:30 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Giovanni <lsodgf0@home.net.it> - 2023-08-15 17:14 +0200
Re: Piping to stdin gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-15 15:48 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2023-08-15 16:12 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2023-08-15 16:15 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2023-08-15 16:22 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2023-08-17 10:26 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2023-08-17 14:23 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-17 15:25 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-08-15 17:33 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-15 23:32 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2023-08-17 10:32 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-17 14:57 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2023-08-17 13:49 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2023-08-17 15:15 +0000
Wrecking a good thing? (Was: Piping to stdin) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-17 14:09 +0000
Re: Wrecking a good thing? Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-18 00:39 +0300
Re: Wrecking a good thing? (Was: Piping to stdin) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-08-18 11:17 +0200
Re: Piping to stdin Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2023-08-17 15:14 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-08-17 13:52 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2023-08-17 15:20 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-17 13:43 -0700
Re: Piping to stdin David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-08-18 11:28 +0200
Re: Piping to stdin Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-17 21:52 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-19 13:33 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin Oğuz <oguzismailuysal@gmail.com> - 2023-08-19 16:15 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2023-08-19 14:48 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-20 17:24 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2023-08-20 19:21 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2023-08-20 21:57 +0100
What language is this? (Was: Piping to stdin) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-20 22:33 +0000
Re: What language is this? (Was: Piping to stdin) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-21 01:26 +0000
Re: What language is this? (Was: Piping to stdin) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-21 02:57 +0000
Re: What language is this? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2023-08-21 17:16 +0100
Re: What language is this? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-21 19:10 +0000
Re: What language is this? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2023-08-21 20:31 +0100
Re: What language is this? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-21 20:29 +0000
Re: What language is this? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2023-08-21 21:48 +0100
Re: What language is this? (Was: Piping to stdin) Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2023-08-21 06:50 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-19 21:14 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2023-08-20 02:02 +0000
Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-08-31 05:57 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-31 09:27 +0100
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-08-31 08:39 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-31 23:34 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-01 07:03 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-01 09:10 +0100
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Helmut Waitzmann <nn.throttle@xoxy.net> - 2024-09-01 19:51 +0200
Putting arbitrary characters into the shell command line (was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux) Helmut Waitzmann <nn.throttle@xoxy.net> - 2024-09-01 21:07 +0200
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Wayne <wayne@nospam.invalid> - 2024-09-03 13:56 -0400
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-03 21:54 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-09-08 07:24 +0200
Arbitrary characters in filenames (was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux) Helmut Waitzmann <nn.throttle@xoxy.net> - 2024-09-01 20:06 +0200
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-08-31 08:37 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 08:44 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-09-03 15:47 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-09-03 15:54 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-09-03 16:10 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-09-04 07:27 +0000
User surveys (Was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-09-04 11:27 +0000
Re: User surveys (Was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to) Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-09-04 13:12 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-09-03 17:37 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 11:39 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-09-03 20:11 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 13:25 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-09-03 20:34 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-03 21:52 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 15:16 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-03 22:18 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-09-03 22:59 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 16:10 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-03 23:54 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 17:27 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-04 00:44 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 21:36 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-04 07:05 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2024-09-04 11:47 +0200
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-04 03:44 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-04 13:33 +0100
Always use "--" (Was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-09-04 13:04 +0000
Re: Always use "--" (Was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-09-04 13:17 +0000
Re: Always use "--" (Was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-04 21:35 +0000
Re: Always use "--" (Was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux) Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-09-05 02:29 +0000
Re: Always use "--" (Was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-09-05 14:48 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-09-03 17:35 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-09-03 23:15 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 16:38 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-03 23:56 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 17:19 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-04 00:41 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-09-03 21:29 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-04 06:49 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-04 10:16 +0100
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-09-04 14:30 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-09-04 08:41 -0700
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-09-04 15:57 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-04 18:03 +0100
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2024-09-05 11:29 +0200
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-05 18:21 +0100
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-09-07 18:20 +0000
Word splitting oddities (Was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-09-07 21:51 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-09-10 07:17 +0200
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-09-10 06:51 +0200
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-09-04 07:31 +0000
Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux (Was: Piping to stdin) Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2024-09-01 11:44 +0200
Re: Piping to stdin Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-15 23:24 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-08-15 20:50 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-16 17:11 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-08-16 15:25 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-08-16 19:29 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-17 14:49 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-16 03:20 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-08-15 18:33 +0300
Re: Piping to stdin "Nuno Silva" <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2023-08-14 09:45 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2023-08-13 21:26 -0600
Re: Piping to stdin Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 09:24 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-14 11:29 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-14 11:28 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-14 15:41 +0000
Re: Piping to stdin Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 22:02 +0100
Re: Piping to stdin scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-14 21:14 +0000
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