Re: Not so useless use of cat

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/17/14, 3:07 AM, Aharon Robbins wrote:

>> I've considered emulating it everywhere, regardless of what the OS
>> provides, but I'd get just as many complaints if I did that.
>>
>> Chet
> 
> This is what gawk does. I haven't had any complaints about this,
> and once you do it that way you can claim that Bash is being consistent
> across all systems.  (That's one of the reasons I did it that way.)
> My two cents, of course.

Sure.  It's a choice between internal and external consistency.  If I
emulated /dev/std* (and maybe /dev/fd/*) internally in bash, bash would
behave the same everywhere, but, as Andreas said, I'd get questions
about why `foo -o /dev/stdout' and `foo >/dev/stdout' behaved differently.

Chet
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