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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: linuxtechguy@gmail.com
Cc: zsh <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: strange interaction between read command and pipe to less from function
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 17:49:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMrR2fYk2A0wicn5Fq+LcJdsF=aQ2_t--voFyMeWOK=Vog@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+rB6GKWVJ2C1pxzykWHMT-GzmcSo0GzBmS0TSAe2PpnOvGxww@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:28 PM Jim <linux.tech.guy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> cvt_256_colors_2_rgb_hex_fmt | less

In this command both cvt_256_colors_2_rgb_hex_fmt and less are going
to read and write to the same TTY. This won't do anything useful.

Perhaps you don't realize that your `read` command reads and writes to
the TTY? What do you expect from running it simultaneously with less?

Roman.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-26 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-26 14:33 Jim
2023-03-26 14:55 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-03-26 15:28   ` Jim
2023-03-26 15:49     ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2023-03-26 17:04       ` Jim
2023-03-26 17:23         ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-03-26 23:50           ` Lawrence Velázquez

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