Dean K. Gibson wrote: > When the output from "tee" is piped to "head" (or presumably any other > program that does not read all of stdin), tee gives "broken pipe" and > "write error" error messages.
That is a pretty strong indication that your session has changed the default signal handling to ignore SIGPIPE. If so then that is a bug in your process environment. It is probably this one: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-11/msg00154.html You can read about a previous discussion of this problem here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-11/msg00007.html > Of course piping stderr to /dev/null gets rid of the messages. You > might consider an option to suppress the messages in this case, while > allowing other messages. This isn't the bug that you thought it was. It is a different bug. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
