On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:51:14 +0200 Martin Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In your first test case, calc's stdin is connected to your terminal. > Since you provided command line arguments, it doesn't become > interactive after performing the calculation on the command line and > exits. Ah, that explains it! I hadn't suspected 'calc' read from stdin; the man page alludes to stdin, but doesn't explain what's done with it, or how it works. > I could imagine that this behaviour might be a useful feature instead > of a bug, but then I agree that it should be documented in the man > page. Definitely should be documented. > BTW, as a workaround, you can append a "< /dev/null" to the calc > invocation in the second case. This should make it behave as you > expected. Thanks very much for that tip, (it works), now I can use 'while read' loops. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
