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- From: bjornw@colargol (Bjoern Wennberg)
- Subject: Re: bash 1.12.1 question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.173038.28209@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: Colargol, Trondheim College of Engineering
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:30:38 GMT
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- Andreas Manessinger (man@magwien.gv.at) wrote:
- : >>>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:50:52 GMT, sacks@netmgr.mot.com (Dennis Sacks) said:
- : Dennis> Nntp-Posting-Host: netmgr.panther.mot.com
- :
- : Dennis> In bash 1.12.1 (SunOS 4.1.2/sparc) can someone explain this behavior:
- :
- : Dennis> ls -a | head -5 works as expected
- :
- : Dennis> ls -l | head -5 works as expected
- :
- : Dennis> ls -la | head -5 works, but then gives "Broken Pipe" message after execution
- :
- : On my DECstation 5000/25 running Ultrix 4.2a the "Broken Pipe" message
- : appears after `ls -la | head -5' *AND* `ls -l | head -5' :-(
-
- Interactive-3.0 reports this:
- bash and csh:
- ls -al | head -5 - broken pipe
- ls -l | head -5 - broken pipe
- tcsh and sh does _not_ report broken pipe
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- bjornw>
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