From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation about Multios is misleading, and perhaps untrue
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:30:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181012083056eucas1p1254a57c82328a4e9349c3a6f8997a0e6~cz0JMnlc50925009250eucas1p10@eucas1p1.samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7YPKmroUfvV1=NGn5rNL7Jufr6Oc_W_kNhuDFGa-CXB=w@mail.gmail.com>
I don't see why we shouldn't at least be a bit more careful...
pws
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo b/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
index c793638..fc52c77 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
@@ -268,9 +268,10 @@ example(echo exit 0 >> *.sh)
If the user tries to open a file descriptor for reading more than once,
the shell opens the file descriptor as a pipe to a process that copies
-all the specified inputs to its output in the order
-specified, similar to bf(cat),
-provided the tt(MULTIOS) option is set. Thus
+all the specified inputs to its output in the order specified, provided
+the tt(MULTIOS) option is set. This is roughly similar to bf(cat) but
+note that shell redirection syntax implies differences in detailed
+behaviour. Thus
example(sort <foo <fubar)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-12 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-11 2:33 Tom Boyd
2018-10-11 4:05 ` dana
2018-10-11 19:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-10-11 20:35 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-10-11 20:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-10-12 8:30 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2018-10-16 0:45 ` Tom Boyd
2018-10-16 2:07 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-10-16 9:33 ` Peter Stephenson
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