NO, the output of "cat /var/lock/subsys/dm" is written over by the prompt of my shell (dm has a number like 1114) [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]$ cat /var/lock/subsys/dm [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]$ My system is Mandrake Linux 9.1 with bash v2.05b Is it possible to change this bash behaviour so that the prompt doesn't overwrite output of a command?
If I type this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]$ echo -n "This is an example of what happens" >me [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]$ cat me [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]$ of what happens then I have to press Enter to be able to write at my prompt. Also the reason why I thought this only happened with a number was that I tested it with text files created by KWrite. I just found out that (sometimes) if I replace a number with some other characters KWrite adds a newline character by itself. I then had the impression that it didn't happen with text characters. Thank you all for the quick responses, vatbier _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
