Re: Program Output Problem

From: Connell Gauld (connell_at_freebreakfast.co.uk)
Date: 03/14/04

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    Is this applicable for any program?

    "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
    news:c32bep$228n43$2@ID-130698.news.uni-berlin.de...
    > Connell Gauld wrote:
    > > Hey,
    > > Is it possible that you can pass the output of one program as the input
    of
    > > another expecting a file. For example is it possible for the output of
    the
    > > 'date' function to be an argument to 'vi'?
    > > So that you would get the following in vi:
    > >
    > > Sun Mar 14 17:50:13 GMT 2003
    > > ~
    > > ~
    > > ~
    >
    > Thanks to tha manual pages in *nix: man vim
    >
    > date | vim -
    >
    >
    > //Aho

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