Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:20:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: mdevan AT iname DOT com
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Subject: Re: "bash"ing "cat"s.
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Mahadevan R. wrote:

>      This is with reference to the recent thread about "cat -", wherein,
> I gather, it was concluded that this was a problem specific to "cat".

No, the conclusion was that this is some bug in Bash which is
triggered by `cat'.  Once triggered, any program which reads from
stdin will get EOF immediately, as your examples show.