On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 03:55:10PM +0200, Lauri Tirkkonen wrote:
> > Currently paste(1) silently does nothing if it's given no file
> > arguments:
> >
> > % printf 'hello\nworld\n'|paste
> > %
> That's a bug, FWIW, FreeBSD has it fixed.
>
> > I
On Sat, Dec 30 2017 19:41:24 +0100, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 03:55:10PM +0200, Lauri Tirkkonen wrote:
> > Currently paste(1) silently does nothing if it's given no file
> > arguments:
> >
> > % printf 'hello\nworld\n'|paste
> > %
> That's a bug, FWIW, FreeBSD has it
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 03:55:10PM +0200, Lauri Tirkkonen wrote:
> Currently paste(1) silently does nothing if it's given no file
> arguments:
>
> % printf 'hello\nworld\n'|paste
> %
That's a bug, FWIW, FreeBSD has it fixed.
> I often do things like 'ps -p $(pgrep sh | paste -sd,)' and
Currently paste(1) silently does nothing if it's given no file
arguments:
% printf 'hello\nworld\n'|paste
%
I often do things like 'ps -p $(pgrep sh | paste -sd,)' and forget the
"-" argument. Some other systems (gnu coreutils, illumos, perhaps more)
default to reading from stdin if no