Re: Problem with wc

[Eric Blake]

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According to Pat Robinson on 6/14/2007 1:11 PM:
> Pat Robinson wrote:
>> cat foo | wc -l 
>> works the first time but will hang on subsequent attempts (foo is a
>> ordinary text file).
>> cat foo | more 
>> works fine time after time

> The other forms work ok.   I do have strace and tried the command but it
> works everytime running it through strace.

Sorry for joining the conversation late (my cable internet connection was
down for two weeks).  Was this on cygwin?  If so, you may be better off
querying on the cygwin list (cygwin AT cygwin DOT com), where people more
knowledgeable about the quirks of porting GNU software to Windows would be
able to chime in.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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