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* Re: [TUHS] Why does shell write to stderr?
@ 2022-04-07 21:11 Douglas McIlroy
  2022-04-07 21:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  2022-04-07 21:36 ` Richard Salz
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From: Douglas McIlroy @ 2022-04-07 21:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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How would you wish to interact with
        /bin/bash >file

Doug

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* Re: [TUHS] Why does shell write to stderr?
@ 2022-04-08  9:34 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
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From: Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS @ 2022-04-08  9:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> If you never ring the bell in the editor, the issue never comes up

As natural language ambiguity was brought up: it makes the code less noisy :^)


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* [TUHS] Why does shell write to stderr?
@ 2022-04-07 17:45 Richard Salz
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From: Richard Salz @ 2022-04-07 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Looking at
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/380012/why-does-bash-interactive-shell-by-default-write-its-prompt-and-echoes-its-inter,
in particular the first answer which has a link to
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/main%E2%80%8C%E2%80%8B.c
Made me wonder: why?

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2022-04-07 22:15   ` Rob Pike
2022-04-07 22:30     ` George Michaelson
2022-04-07 23:51       ` Rob Pike
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