> P.S. The reason that "find ... -print0 | xargs -0r rm -i" exhibits the > same behaviour is a different one: Here, find's stdin filehandle would > somehow have to be passed through to rm (via xargs, which in turn has > its stdin attached to find's stdout), in order for rm to be able to > read from the current interactive tty. I'd think that such indirect, > bidirectional pipes simply seemed too cumbersome to implement...
It's odd that I wasn't aware of this problem before. Looking at the xargs man page, the description of the --arg-file option makes it seem that commands run by xargs will always have stdin closed, unless xargs reads file names from a file instead of from stdin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
