Re: /dev/one - why not /dev/repeat?

Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 02:58:45 -0500

Steve VanDevender wrote:
>
> Dave Cinege writes:
> > thunder7@xs4all.nl wrote:
> > > Are there advantages in having something like /dev/repeat?
> >
> > Actually yes, I'd liek that more. (And could have used it quite a few times.)
>
> 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.
The only way to do the above on LRP would be with a subprocessed for/while
loop. VERY SLOW and wastful of memory.

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