Re: Oddity In stty

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, David L. Craig wrote:
> 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.

You can file a wishlist bug against coreutils, asking for the documentation
update...

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