Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz <at> informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> writes: > Does it look so uncommon? 'sed' is used very often, pipes too. 'tac' > can be there too, e.g. with a trailing 'sed "1p;d"' Yet, elsewhere in this same thread, you wrote: > For what do you need 'sed' or pipes to start/stop a daemon? So you're contradicting yourself. Kevin Kofler