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Re: cat - -


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: cat - -
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:19:48 -0500
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On Monday 14 January 2008, address@hidden wrote:
> Bet you don't document anywhere that/why
> $ echo a|cat - -
> will only give one "a".

what were you expecting to happen ?  it is not possible for cat to re-read 
stdin once it has consumed it.
-mike

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