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[edit] Unix command?
In Unix, y is a command to join the output of two streams.
Is it, really? I have never heard about that (not that I would be some kind of Unix hacker), that program is not on the List of Unix programs, nor could I find anything using Google (but trying to search "y" is quite difficult). Could you point to anything about the program? --Mormegil 21:16, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I may be wrong. I realized that I know it from the JP Software command shells (4DOS, 4OS2, Take Command and the like). I would be surprised if 4DOS would have better support for piping than Unix shells.
- I may have misremembered the function of the program. From help
- Purpose: Copy standard input to standard output, and then copy the specified file(s) to standard output.
- Format: Y file ...
- The Y command copies input from standard input (usually the keyboard) to standard output (usually the screen). Once the input ends, the named files are appended to standard output.
- [c:\] y memo1 memo2 > memos
- [c:\] dir | y dirend > dirall
- -- Error 23:19, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Well, in Unix, you can achieve the same thing with cat /dev/stdin file ..., so I don't think there would be a special tool for it. So I think it probably is not a Unix command; I'm going to change the article to refer to 4DOS instead. Thanks, Mormegil 09:07, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Spanish names
Does anyone know how 'y' fits into the convention for names? I think it's a spanish thing. For example if a person's name is 'Manuel Luis' and his last name is 'Quezon', and his mother's maiden name is 'Molina', then the full name would be "Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina". I think. Any insight? -TheCoffee 10:58, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Is the current version enough? --Error 01:52, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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- Seems good. Thanks. -TheCoffee 22:48, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The German Y
The German name for Y is Üpsilon, not Upsilon.
[edit] Sorting Out
I tried to sort it out by use in similar languages, but the history at the top is all Greek-Old=English-French and it's a mess (like a child's vacation report: "First we did this, then we did that, and next we did this, and at last we did that"). So it needs work. --Sobolewski 03:35, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What letter is this?
Ｙ --FlareNUKE 05:54, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
That is Unicode character U+FF39: FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y. See Fullwidth form. Nohat 07:00, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Use of Y as a consonant
The article covers a lot of information about the use of Y in places where it forms a vowel, but I see no information that describes its use as a consonant (e.g. in "yes"). How has this emerged historically? Why is it now normally classed as a consonant despite historically being a vowel? A link to Semivowel may be necessary. Unfortunately I don't know enough about linguistics to write such a section. JulesH 10:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
