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grep < fifo fails
- From: Ole Tange <ota at prosa dot dk>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 15:37:14 +0000
- Subject: grep < fifo fails
This works:
$ mkfifo fifo
$ echo > fifo & grep . fifo
[1] 10232
[1]+ Done echo > fifo
But this fails:
$ echo > fifo & grep . < fifo
[1] 11756
grep: (standard input): Invalid argument
[1]+ Done echo > fifo
I see the same behavior on MINGW, but I do not see the same behavior on GNU/Linux.
Regards,
Ole Tange
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