Posted 01/14/2008 at 07:17:40am

I just wanted to let Gordon know what the | character is used for these days. It is used extensively when you work with Unix or Linux. It allows you to chain commands together in the console. Example use: tail -10000 logfile.log | grep "Jan 14" | grep maxpc This would take the last 10000 lines of the log file, look for the text Jan 14, and then look for max pc within that result set.