Pat Robinson wrote: > cat foo | wc -l > works the first time but will hang on subsequent attempts (foo is a > ordinary text file). > cat foo | more > works fine time after time
That is really strange. I can't imagine what the problem would be in that case. It is almost like no EOF is being recieved when piping. > I'm running 6.9 coreutils on Windows XP x64 Try this test: wc -l < foo Does that hang? Try this test. Does this hang? cat foo | cat | more I would really like to see the result of 'strace' on wc. strace wc -l < foo But I don't think strace is available on your system. If it were that would trace the system calls made by the program and we would be able to (hopefully) see what it is doing. Obviously wc is not hanging for others using the program so this must be something specific to your system or to the binary compilation that you are using. I am sorry but I don't have any further suggestions. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
