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The Next Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
- scrrr 17y agoAh, what a cool page that CommandLineFu is... :)
- zellux 17y agoI didn't know that pipes can work with remote commands before, what amazing combinations!
- sophacles 17y agoThey don't -- they work with the local ssh command. Its just that ssh when invoked with a "command argument" runs that command instead of a shell, with the stdin and stdout being run through the network. The end result is similar to what you said, but the mechanism is different, the pipe itself is strictly a local construct.
- zellux 17y agoThanks for pointing out that :)
- sown 17y agoMy favorite is the modifier for histories. $ ls a b c a b c $ ls !$ ls c c $ ls a b c a b c $ ls !:3 !:2 !:1 !:0 ls c b a ls ls: ls: No such file or directory a b c $