Re: /dev/one - why not /dev/repeat?
Tim Smith (tzs@tzs.net)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 01:02:56 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Dave Cinege wrote:
> > Anyone who thinks /dev/one or /dev/~zero or /dev/repeat is
> > something that needs to be implemented to fill a great need must
> > be embarrassingly unfamiliar with basic UNIX utilities.
>
> I write HEAVY DUTY scripts for LRP. All those scripts have to use are
> ash, sed, and a multicall binary. (No not even bash)
>
> Sometimes you do not have a 200MB worth of utils to acompish the job.
You don't need 200 MB worth of utilities:
yes "What you want repeated" | tr -d \\n
That's 19k for "tr" and a little over 4k for "yes". (They both use libc,
but you've already got that for ash and sed).
--Tim Smith
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