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Re: "touch -" touching standard output
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David Feuer |
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Re: "touch -" touching standard output |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:38:10 -0400 |
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:18:32PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I would prefer if "-" were not special but that instead an option were
> added such as --stdin and --stdout and those were used to access this
> special mode. This would be out-of-band control which avoids that
> problem.
Much better would be
--fd=0
--fd=1
--fd=2
etc. That allows full generality. Something like that could be very
nice for tee too. (note: it's 1:37 here, so I could be talking
nonsense).
David