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- From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: Sort problem . .
- Message-ID: <FRIEDMAN.92Jul31114626@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:46:26 GMT
- References: <33pmg <1992Jul31.000822.13317@convex.com> <0fqm1cp.messina@netcom.com>
- <1992Jul31.115559.11391@convex.com>
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- In-reply-to: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 31 Jul 92 11:55:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.115559.11391@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >Splitting something up ps to put the header to stderr and the rest of
- >data to stdout is a myopic solution.
-
- Agreed. I consider the header to be "useful" information. I've used it
- plenty of times in shell scripts to decide what field in the rest of the
- output was the one I wanted, since it's almost impossible to expect that
- different implementations of PS will ever be otherwise compatible.
- It's not just there for humans to read! Don't mess with it.
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