Nice catch. My brain didn't get engaged while the fingers were typing..... _____________________ Jim Hughes x5586 "It is fun to do the impossible." Quote from Walt Disney
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Rob van der Heij Sent: Sat 8/7/2010 8:48 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: pipe question? On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Hughes, Jim <jim.hug...@doit.nh.gov> wrote: > "pipe (endchar ?) ", > ? < guests list a ", > "| bld: take 1 ", > "| > guests list a ", > "? bld: ", > your process follows You meant to "drop" rather than "take" to leave all but the first record in the file. But it's an elegant style to divert the record to process towards the end of the pipeline (so you don't forget to keep the remainder). And real plumbing would be to handle them all, not just one of them (but that's beyond the question). | Rob
