[ On Monday, June 17, 2002 at 10:38:51 (-0700), Daniel Mercer wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: This has GOT to be a bug in ksh...
>
> Why won't:
> 
> find . -type f| cat
> 
> work?

In that case why add the overhead of "| cat"?  :-)


> It seems to provide the same results as reading from stdin
> and echoing to stdout.
> 
> Clearly, I'm missing something. =)

I think the point is to demonstrate a coding technique.  The "echo
$file" is merely an example command -- any other command or list of
commands could take its place to do something more sophisticated with
the files.  :-)

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