Piping down the valleys wild

*set h hello world

*alias x show | <h>    (******)

*x
hello world

| never a good idea to alias x
*unset x

(“******”) Ceci “|” n’est pas une pipe

While browsing the PRMs I thought I’d found
command to command pipes in RISC OS as in Bash.


eg. history | grep “nano”

Sadly not, my pipe turned out to be an escape character.

:-) :-)

The CLI aint bash :-(

Seeing the title of this topic I came to it thinking I should suggest it be “glens” not “valleys”… 8→

should suggest it be “glens” not “valleys”

They be English pipes not Scottish. Blame Billy Blake.

I’m aware of Northumbrian Pipes. But not “English” ones as such. I’m now wondering if there are Cornish Pipes…

Jim I think you have the wrong sort of pipe in mind. It is more likely it refers to a reed pipe.

“Their lean and fleshy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw…. …”

Ah. I was confusing it with “Piping Hot” as in Cornish Pasties. :-)

FWIW one of my co-workers decades ago was in the Vale of Atholl pipe band. I think they won the World Championship at the time. On a couple of occasions he played the pipes in our lab when we got a big contract or grant.