Bug#688349: flite can't write to stdout (or any non-file, e.g. fifo)

["Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>]

On Sunday, September 23, 2012 13:31:29 Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> On Sunday, September 23, 2012 09:05:25 Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Wesley J. Landaker, le Fri 21 Sep 2012 15:20:12 -0600, a écrit :
> > > I tried every dirty trick [...] bash redirects to /dev/stdout,
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you tried exactly, but
> > 
> > flite test.txt /dev/stdout > test.wav
> > 
> > does work for me (although it is true that a "-" shortcut would be
> > convenient).
> 
> Yes, but this only works if you do that, one, literal,
> non-useful-in-any-way thing. Your example is equivalent to "flite
> test.txt test.wav", which obviously works.

Note that *even this* doesn't work:

  flite test.txt /dev/stdout

It writes a few bytes then just hangs.