michael@trigraph.UUCP (Michael Winser) (02/04/88)
This is a little hard to explain so bear with me if I get a little
vague.
I have two filters foo and bar
they are meant to be used as follows:
foo arg1 | bar arg2 > file
Yet when I do this, they consistantly generate a new line on the
terminal. If I pipe to cat instead of redirecting to file the
results are the same *most* of the time!
If I run them seperately:
foo arg1 > /tmp/foo
bar arg2 < /tmp/foo > /tmp/bar
then all goes well and nary a line to be seen!
If I enclose the pipeline in parens:
( foo arg1 | bar arg2 ) > file
then again, *no* newline to be seen.
This happens in both the Bourne shell and the Korn shell,
but *not* with the csh.
If you know what is going on or have heard of some wierd shell bug/feature
please send me email.
Michael
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