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cat: error without arguments

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: lilydjwg <lilydjwg <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 76255-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76255: cat: error without arguments
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:22:02 -0800

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On 2025-02-12 22:45, lilydjwg wrote:
> cat: -: input file is output file

Thanks for the bug report. The symptoms you observe are a bug in 'cat'. 
I also see a bug in Gawk which I reported to the Gawk maintainer 
<https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gawk/2025-02/msg00003.html>. I don't see a 
bug in zsh or fish but perhaps I'm missing something.

To fix the 'cat' bug I installed the attached patch into bleeding-edge 
Coreutils on Savannah, and something like this patch should appear in 
the next release.

[0001-cat-fix-plain-cat-bug.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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