Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:24:17 +0300 (IDT)
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Mark E. wrote:


> > > 'ls | less' produces a left-over temp file (BTW, echo `gdate` doesn't)
> > 
> > Mark, does the fact that `gdate` behaves differently say something
> > important?
> 
> All it does it deepen the mystery. Both command piping and command 
> substitution use pipes created with pipe(). I don't see why one should work 
> and one shouldn't.

Perhaps the fact that gdate produces much less output than ls.
Laurynas, can you try "`ls`" and "gdate | less" and see what happens?