Subject: Re: bug#33302: Unexpected unzip

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 07:42:02 -0800

[email-masked] wrote:
> I just wonder if a pipe might automatically be interpreted as providing the contents and leaving the original unchanged?

That would run afoul of the Unix tradition that programs shouldn't care about 
where stdout is going. This is part of the GNU Coding Standards so it's unlikely 
to change here.