[mdlug] UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

[Aaron Kulkis]

Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> I used to use lots and lots of aliases when I was in college.
>>
>> Then I found that in the commercial world, it can become
>> a pain in the neck...as you get used to having your
>> aliases...and then when you're working in some other
>> environment... poof... now you're typing things that
>> don't work the way you want them to (if at all)
> 
> And don't forget sometimes different shells, or regular vi instead of
> vim. Working in different environments requires flexibility. It might
> help to have your preferred startup files on a thumb drive, or available
> over the network.
> 
> In this vein, this command:
>   w3m mdlug.org/contacts/president/scripts+scraps/home/.bashrc
> will send the file to standard output, but
>   w3m mdlug.org/contacts/president/scripts+scraps/home/.bashrc |source -
> will not source this stdout.

Can source actually accept input on stdin?

(file redirection ( < ) and piped data both show up on stdin).

> It seems there should be a way to do this just using pipes, but I
> haven't been able to do it without writing to a local file first.
> Hmmm.
> 
>> but your man alias is one worth using...