Timeline for Reading a named pipe: tail or cat?
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| Sep 17, 2017 at 13:04 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | In POSIX shells and when not interactive, when you start a command in background, its stdin becomes /dev/null, so cat will exit just after starting. In shells that don't do that, and/or if run from an interactive shell in a terminal, cat will likely be suspended as it attempts to read from the terminal while not being in the foreground. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 1:25 | history | edited | jimmij | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 4 characters in body |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 1:20 | history | answered | jimmij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |