l.s. This is not really a bug, but I ran into this (what I think is a small inconsistency) while working on a nohup patch for a -o switch[0]. The ls info page states:
"" By default, the output is sorted alphabetically, according to the locale settings in effect. (1) If standard output is a terminal, the output is in columns (sorted vertically) and control characters are output as question marks; otherwise, the output is listed one per line and control characters are output as-is. "" and the nohup info page states: "" If standard output is a terminal, it is redirected so that it is appended to the file `nohup.out'; if that cannot be written to, it is appended to the file `$HOME/nohup.out'. If that cannot be written to, the command is not run. "" Note the small difference. The ls documentation informs what is done when the standard output is a terminal *and* what is done when stdout is _not_ a terminal. The nohup docs, on the other hand, only inform about behaviour _if_ stdout is a terminal, not what happens if it isn't. Both ls and nohup have the property of acting differently in both cases, but in my opinion the ls documentation is a lot clearer. My proposal is to add following line to the mentioned paragraph in the info page of nohup: "" If standard output is not a terminal, the output from COMMAND is redirected to the standard output of nohup. "" Sincerely, Steven Mocking [0] Yes, that patch for an -o switch would have been a reinvention of a practically undocumented wheel. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
