Hrm. I think its a failure with the 'cat' command. As if I used 'head
-5000' (the test input being signifigantly shorter than 5000 lines), it
works fine.. Must be some difference between the reading semantics of
the two.. strange...
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Dave C. wrote:
>
> > One thing I did find, is that while if I try to 'cat' the stdin, i get
> > nothing, if I use bash's 'read' I get the first line of the message
> > (the from_hack line, in this case)..
> >
> > I am absolutely baffled.. -d9 output seems to indicate its writing the
> > file, but nothing shows up from cat.. Is my cat broken? (Humor
> > intended)
>
> I too am baffled. All the tests I do show no problem at all. Have you
> tried several bash 'read's? Do you get subsequent lines? If so, it is
> most weird indeed if cat fails.
>
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