On 2/9/11 1:08 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote: > > Doh! I should have remembered that. So the functions I wrote could have been > implemented as: > > Ntee() { > tee "$@" >/dev/null > } > > Just goes to show that there's usually several ways to do anything in Linux. > I focused on doing it entirely in bash. > - MacK.
Which is vaguely related to the perl "mentality" of never making a system call and always finding and using, or writing your own, module (that also doesn't make a system call). I'm sure perl has tee-like functions (actually, I remember a perl script named "tee2" that did write to multiple output files), versus the more traditional (?) unix mentality of using many small, does-one-function-and-does-it-well utilities available in the environment, tied together perhaps with a shell script. I prefer the latter, but I can understand the portability issues and the perl-only solution to them. - Larry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/