> I gotta admit, this took me by surprise, too, but my guess is that once > the head command is done, it closes the pipe it's reading from, which is > being filled by grep; grep takes the hint and terminates, closing the pipe > it's reading from, which is being filled by strings; and strings takes the > hint and terminates, even though it hasn't gotten through the entire file.
yeah, that kind of makes sense. I forgot you were using head not tail - I normally use tail for that kind of thing - in fact I think I've only used head about 2 or 3 times in my life! But head could well stop as soon as it gets the first 10 lines from grep. Interesting, I must try some experiments.... Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
