On 10/05/2017 10:38 PM, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:14:33 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> It all depends on what the command's purpose is for, and how it's >> designed to be chained with other commands (cat for example). > > They're almost all designed to be chained with other commands. Even > diff and ed are designed to work together in a pipe; the output from > "diff -e" can be piped into ed to make ed apply changes to a file.
Right. And my point was several of them are smart about detecting whether they are actually connected to a pipe or to a real tty. And they change their mode to be more interactive when not on a pipe. For example: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/bc /bin/less (reverts to acting like cat when outputting to pipe) I'm sure there are others. So Bart's complaint does have merit. If a developer wanted to make a command operate both interactively and not so in a more verbose manner, he could. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
