On Jan 16, 2008 12:01 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes yes. I'm just saying supposing a theoretical new user's first > encounter with all this stuff was the document trail that started with > the cat man page, then he would think "-" was broken.
The best place to document this could well be a new-user document. Explaining that once you've read all the data from a pipe, you can't rewind it, and explaining that in one place is probably more helpful than stating it as a caveat on the handling of "-" in hundreds of utilities. Such a document would also be a good place to explain the handling of wildcards and so forth too. But the main problem is to figure out where to put such a document so that new users will actually read it. What do you think? > So still an understanding of Unix is implied as the docs perhaps > describe 95% but not yet 100% of what one needs to know. I think exposition of general principles probably belongs somewhere else. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils