Matthew Woehlke users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Maybe I am being brain-dead... This does not work with 6.9:
>
> $ seq 5 | ( head -1 ; sort -n )
>
> ...but now I forget if pipes are seekable (I want to say "no" actually),
> so maybe PEBKAC?
Pipes are not seekable, hence the name ESPIPE for th
Jim Meyering wrote:
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This should already be possible with a command such as:
$ ( sed 1q ; sort [args] ) < [file]
...however it seems my version of sed (4.1.2-RH4) does not honor POSIX
semantics and consumes too much of the input ('head' from
coreutils-6
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This should already be possible with a command such as:
> $ ( sed 1q ; sort [args] ) < [file]
>
> ...however it seems my version of sed (4.1.2-RH4) does not honor POSIX
> semantics and consumes too much of the input ('head' from
> coreutils-6.9 seems to
Balaji S. Srinivasan wrote:
The coreutils, particularly the text utilities, are an amazing piece of
work and crucial for our group's research efforts at Stanford.
Thank you for taking the time to make this code robust and high quality.
Along these lines, I have a suggestion for a minor improvem
Hello,
The coreutils, particularly the text utilities, are an amazing piece
of work and crucial for our group's research efforts at Stanford.
Thank you for taking the time to make this code robust and high quality.
Along these lines, I have a suggestion for a minor improvement. Would
it be
