Re: Not so useless use of cat

[Aharon Robbins]

In article <address@hidden>,
Chet Ramey  <address@hidden> wrote:
>On 9/17/14, 3:07 AM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>
>>> I've considered emulating it everywhere, regardless of what the OS
>>> provides, but I'd get just as many complaints if I did that.
>>>
>>> Chet
>> 
>> This is what gawk does. I haven't had any complaints about this,
>> and once you do it that way you can claim that Bash is being consistent
>> across all systems.  (That's one of the reasons I did it that way.)
>> My two cents, of course.
>
>Sure.  It's a choice between internal and external consistency.  If I
>emulated /dev/std* (and maybe /dev/fd/*) internally in bash, bash would
>behave the same everywhere, but, as Andreas said, I'd get questions
>about why `foo -o /dev/stdout' and `foo >/dev/stdout' behaved differently.

Yes, I live with the "damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't" all the
time too.  It sounds like you've already decided which way you want
things to be. :-)
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