Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > I thought we were talking about 'od' here where presumably you always > > want to open files for reading in binary mode? (And as far as I know od > > doesn't write anything, redirection aside...) > > 'twas redirection I was thinking of: > > $ od /dev/null>od.out > $ od /dev/null>textmount/od.out > $ ls -l od.out textmount/od.out > -rw-r--r-- 1 sthoenna None 8 Jan 2 17:28 od.out > -rw-r--r-- 1 sthoenna None 9 Jan 2 17:28 textmount/od.out
Redirection is setup by the shell, so the program whose output is redirected has no say on how the file is opened. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
