Re: [Help-bash] Missing stdin in bash script.

[Jin Li]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your reply. My bash version is 4.3.11(1)-release

And my error is removed, once I remove the definition
of the TMPDIR environment.

Thanks anyway for your response.

Best regards,
Jin

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jin Li wrote:
> > I have one problem as below:
> > 1. I have one script file, say 'test.sh':
>
> Thank you for the very nice and clear test case!  That is much
> appreciated.
>
> > #!/usr/bin/env bash
> > cat > xxx.txt
> >
> > 2. Running command as:
> >
> > $ ./test.sh <<< aaa
> >
> > Get the error:
> >
> > cat: -: Stale file handle
> >
> > 3. Running like below works:
> >
> > echo "aaa" | ./test.sh
>
> What version of bash are you using?
>
>   echo $BASH_VERSION
>
> I could not reproduce this problem with the bash 4.3.42 on my system.
> Nor with 4.2.37 on another system.  Nor 3.2.39 on a much older system.
>
> I didn't try every possible version of bash but I presume that this is
> a version specific bug that has been fixed in later versions.
>
> Bob
>
>