Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > This should not be controlled by -P I think. > At least this feature should only be enabled if isatty(1). > Otherwise scripts that don't use this non obvious option > will break as new devices are added to the system.
The option is specified by POSIX for exactly this purpose. Without it you can get wildly different output on various systems anyway. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [email protected] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
