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Re: touching "-"


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: touching "-"
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:01:16 -0800
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

>> $ ls -
>> ls: cannot access -: No such file or directory
>
> ls is not one of those commands.  So rather than listing
> stdin or stdout (neither of which makes sense)

Actually, it would make a lot of sense for 'ls' to list stdin, no?
'ls' could apply fstat to stdin and show the results.




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