Re: [Cooker] Cannot cat file

[Francis Galiegue]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:

>
> > [gc@obiwan ~] cat plop
> > [gc@obiwan ~] cat plop ; echo
> > 33018,ntUd5@dEDeBKtly{
>
> Ah!  So the prompt simply overwrites the output because the file isn't
> newline terminated?
>

What happens is that the shell outputs a carriage return before printing
the prompt. This is the default behaviour and it explains what you see.

zsh has a way around this though:

zsh$ echo -n ioqzejcoiqjzegf >meuh
zsh$ cat meuh                    # Nothing printed, the CR eats all chars
zsh$ unsetopt promptcr           # Magic!
zsh$ cat meuh
ioqzejcoiqjzegfzsh$

I don't know if bash can also do so, but I guess it can.

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