Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi rcmjivaro,
just to clarify: I agree that in most cases asking for more information is appropriate
and when the OP's approach is obviously wrong, we're supposed
to guide her/him and teach her/him and we should explain why what she/he's doing is wrong.

I don't find anything in the above post that's obviously wrong (maybe it's just me),
I just don't have enough information to determine it.

I still think that this post could be useful because it reminds (something
that most readers already know) how most Unix utilities read from standard input.

I have tried the same, but not working:

Code:

ubuntu% awk 'BEGIN { print "output comming from", ARGV[0] }' |pipe> cat file1 -
zsh: command not found: pipe

@Pandeesh

Omit "pipe>"

@pandeesh
Please stop hijacking threads.

Yes,
correct, thanks!

This is a nice zsh feature (sorry for the confusion), I should have removed that part
in order to make the output more clear:

Code:

zsh-4.3.14[sysadmin]% print '
quote>  
quote> 
quote> '




zsh-4.3.14[sysadmin]% : <<!
heredoc> 
heredoc> 
heredoc> ok
heredoc> !
zsh-4.3.14[sysadmin]% for f in *; do
for> print -- $(( ++i ))
for> done
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
zsh-4.3.14[sysadmin]% ls |
pipe> sort
Measuring Scalability and Performance with TCP, Baron Schwartz, Percona.wmv
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