Topic: file input/output
Topic: extensible languages
Topic: goto statement
Topic: parallel control statements
ThesaHelp: references t-z
Topic: Unix pipes
Topic: named constants and expressions
Topic: processing a sequence
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Reference
Thompson, K.,
"The UNIX command language", pp. 375-384, in Bates, D. (ed.),
Structured Programming: International State of the Art Report, Great Britain, Infotech International, 1976.
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Quotations
QuoteRef: thomK_1976 ;;377 each program has standard input and output files which can be changed at call site
| 378 ;;Quote: I/O redirection can either create a new output file or append to an existing one
| QuoteRef: thomK_1976 ;;378 a;b for operation a then operation b while a & b is a and b at same time or a& is a and the master console
| QuoteRef: thomK_1976 ;;379 a|b means standard output of a is b's standard input
| QuoteRef: thomK_1976 ;;379 (a;b) creates a new Shell (&the CLI) to do a then b with b's output appended to a's
| QuoteRef: thomK_1976 ;;379 "Since these operations can be user-supplied, it is easily extensible ([the Unix command line interpreter)
| QuoteRef: thomK_1976 ;;380 goto x rewinds standard input, scans to (:x), and starts executing at next statement
| QuoteRef: thomK_1976 ;;380 As command. for specifying literals in UNIX shell
| 383 ;;Quote: many computing tasks are generate elements, filter them, sink them, e.g. print
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