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- From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: bash 1.12.1 question
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 17:00:28 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- >In bash 1.12.1 (SunOS 4.1.2/sparc) can someone explain this behavior:
- >ls -la | head -5 works, but then gives "Broken Pipe" message after execution
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- Bash prints a message when a processes is killed by a signal for every
- signal except SIGINT. Other shells special-case SIGPIPE; bash does not.
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- Chet
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- Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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