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From: Amos Shapir amos@CS....
Subject: An rc challenge
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 08:39:23 -0500


How to do spliced pipes:
	cmd_a > file; cmd_b <{ cmd_c < file} <{ cmd_d < file }
can also be done as:
	cmd_b <{ cmd_a | cmd_c} <{ cmd_a | cmd_d }

But if "cmd_a" is heavy, how can this be done without running it
twice, or using a temporary file?

Alternatively, is there an easy way to do named pipes in rc?

Thanks,

	Amos Shapir		Net: amos@cs....
Paper: The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Dept. of Comp. Science.
       Givat-Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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