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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#33302: Unexpected unzip |
| Date: | Wed, 7 Nov 2018 07:42:02 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 |
address@hidden wrote:
I just wonder if a pipe might automatically be interpreted as providing the contents and leaving the original unchanged?
That would run afoul of the Unix tradition that programs shouldn't care about where stdout is going. This is part of the GNU Coding Standards so it's unlikely to change here.
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