hunt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (HUNT LEE CAMERON) (08/30/90)
I'm using ARP v. 1.3 with ConMan v.1.3. I'm used to UN*X's shell piping where one can say: ls -alR * | fgrep .zoo which will look for and print in "long" format all occurences of ".zoo" in the current directory and all sub-directories. Hoping to be able to accomplish the same on my Amiga, I tried this: dir files size all * | search STDIN .zoo which works. (I know that one can also say: search * *.zoo all quick file which does the same same, except it returns the list *in order* whereas dir seems to present the files as they are on the disk, and also, alas, the files size is missing.) BUT, I wanted to be clever and run that in the background, in UN*X: ls -alR * | fgrep .zoo & HOWEVER, on the Amiga, one would expect it to be: run dir files size all * | search STDIN .zoo which *doesn't* work. It appears that the run applies only to the "dir" command and ignores the search command. So, I'd like to know if there's any way to get the "run" command to include both commands of the pipe, like UN*X does. Thanks much, --Lee "Nothing is more disorginized than Calvinball!" -- Calvin & Hobbes hunt@spot.colorado.edu ...!ncar!boulder!spot!hunt
wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) (09/02/90)
In article <25395@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hunt@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (HUNT LEE CAMERON) writes: >I'm using ARP v. 1.3 with ConMan v.1.3. I'm used to UN*X's shell piping > . . . >BUT, I wanted to be clever and run that in the background, in UN*X: > > ls -alR * | fgrep .zoo & >HOWEVER, on the Amiga, one would expect it to be: > run dir files size all * | search STDIN .zoo >which *doesn't* work. It appears that the run applies only to the >"dir" command and ignores the search command. With that syntax the output from "run" (which is almost nothing) is piped to search. Then you get the output from "dir files size all". (To see this enter run dir files size all * | search STDIN shell .) You'll want to use "\|" above instead of "|" so that the piping will be done in the background shell. The first line of output will be unpleasantly indented. That can be fixed with run dir files size all * \| search STDIN .zoo | tee | echo "" Here the (small) stdout stream from tee goes to "echo", which swallows it, while the stderr stream goes to the console before the console output from the background process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- William F. Hammond Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics 518-442-4625 SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222 hammond@leah.albany.edu wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet ----------------------------------------------------------------------