On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:59:35 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>Yes and no. Special files are kernel facilities. The shell recognizes "|" as a
>pipe request, creates the special file and file descriptors. The communication
>between the processes does not involve the shell.
>
I wonder whether:
iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 trace_large.log |
{ chtag -vr /dev/fd/0; head; }
would provide additional information or change the behavior?
>>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:00:30 -0500, Michael Babcock wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had to add the -B to prevent �head� from doing autoconvert on the file.
>>>>
>>>> -bash-4.3# iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 trace_large.log | head -B
>>>> ********************************************************************************
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gil
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