Re: Oddity In stty

["David L. Craig" <dlc.usa@comcast.net>]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 17:35 -0400, David L. Craig wrote:
> I can't figure this out.  Why does the first pipeline suceed but the second fails?
> I'm running an up-to-date Sid.
> 
> dlc@muse:~$                 fold -w `stty -a | head -1 | awk '{print $7}' | tr -d ';'` < /dev/null
> dlc@muse:~$ cat /dev/null | fold -w `stty -a | head -1 | awk '{print $7}' | tr -d ';'`
> stty: standard input: Invalid argument
> fold: option requires an argument -- w
> Try `fold --help' for more information.
> dlc@muse:~$ 

Well, I figured out a way around it:  stty -a </dev/tty
Solaris behaves similarly.  I'm surprised this isn't
documented behavior.