On 3/19/19 8:49 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:25:50 -0400
> From: Greg Wooledge <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> | Yes, just like here documents do. And have always done, in all shells.
>
> That's not correct. There are shells that don't use files for here
> docs. Any application that relies on stdin being seekable is broken
> (unless it makes that happen for itself) - the most obvious example
> which is not seekable is when stdin is a terminal.
I'm not saying such an application isn't broken. I'm saying that such
applications exist and have worked with bash.
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