Re: lseek(2) operators in shells

From	Headless /body <devnull@NotReallyAn.example.com>
Newsgroups	comp.unix.shell
Subject	Re: lseek(2) operators in shells
Date	2012-03-14 22:58 -0400
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Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

>> 
>>    Why? Some commands exist in more than one section, e.g. read (1, 2
>>    and n).
>
> Only a handful, and most of the time the context will disambiguate it.  
> Feel free to use the notation in the rare instance when it's not obvious 
> which is meant, but why is it necessary the rest of the time?

It's for the people who don't RTFM, and might assume the word is just a
misspelling, or the're confused. 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gerp

:-)

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  Re: empty file is simply an inode with sort of null pointers Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 12:22 +0700
    Re: empty file is simply an inode with sort of null pointers Paul Branon <paulbranon@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-14 08:54 -0700
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