bin/111711: cat(1) misbehaves with directories as parameters

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez rnsanchez at wait4.org
Tue Apr 17 17:33:58 UTC 2007


On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:56:03 -0400
Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> >  Thanks for the info.  In any case, cat do misbehave when both
> > directories a= nd
> >  files are passed as parameters, as it doesn't cat anything else after the
> >  directory:
> 
> No, cat isn't misbehaving there.  Your terminal is, but cat is fine.
> To see the difference, just redirect the output into a file, and the
> command will finish properly.

You're right, just checked here.  Pointy-hat to me.

Thanks for the additional info.  :)

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez     <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}>
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