Subject: bug#14190: cat command bug

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:41:45 +0100

tag 14190 notabug
close 14190
stop

On 04/12/2013 03:29 AM, hockseng leow wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Ctrl-c is behaving like Ctrl-d.
> 
> When redirecting from standard-in to an existing file, Ctrl-c empties
> out the old file contents. In the past, Ctrl-c just aborts cat and
> leave the existing file unchanged.
> 
> It happens in Fedora 17.
> 
> Please fix.

Please give your exact command line if you still think this is an issue,
but I suspect your shell is truncating the file before cat runs.

thanks,
Pádraig.