On 10/06/2017 07:24 AM, bartc wrote: > On 06/10/2017 14:11, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >> I regularly use at least cat, wc and od this way (plus a few of my own >> utilities like utf8dump). I'm sure I've used sort this way, too, though >> rather rarely. I usually don't type the input but paste it in, > > Exactly. Probably no one ever uses these programs with actual live input > with the possibility of uncorrectable errors getting through.
I regularly use cat in an interactive way. Most Unix users do. cat >somefile.txt sometext ^D It's a very fast way of moving stuff from the clipboard to a file without having to fire up an editor. I'm not sure a prompt would benefit very much here, since this is such a common operation once you learn it. In MS-DOS to create a file you do "copy con: file" and then you also get a blinking cursor with no prompt. Yet this was just something we did with MS-DOS. Not sure a prompt would have gained much. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
