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cat command bug

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From: hockseng leow <lhs <at> oses.sg>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Cc: 14190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14190: cat command bug
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:49:21 +0800

$ cat abc.txt
abc
$ cat >abc.txt
def
^C
$ cat abc.txt
def

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
> 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.
>



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