Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-spur2.glorb.com!homer.glorb.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Headless /body Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: lseek(2) operators in shells Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:58:15 -0400 Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com Lines: 16 Message-ID: <87ipi6o9iw.fsf@NotReallyAn.example.com> References: <55e8c993-a9ca-4e30-a85c-18430f2eb025@db5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <86pqcfbvud.fsf@gray.siamics.net> <0844dc91-9a86-4c72-be7f-39fd85fc1f0d@t16g2000yqt.googlegroups.com> <86pqcf86x1.fsf_-_@gray.siamics.net> <20120314171105.GA6799@yahoo.fr> <20120314110444.361@kylheku.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 5qTuZfkz82Mhy+cKT+Hz+A.user.posting2.glorb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@glorb.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:58:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Scanned by Mr. Bill Xref: csiph.com comp.unix.shell:4483 Barry Margolin 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 :-)