Re: touching "-"

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>>> $ ls -
>>> ls: cannot access -: No such file or directory
>>
>> ls is not one of those commands.  So rather than listing
>> stdin or stdout (neither of which makes sense)
>
> Actually, it would make a lot of sense for 'ls' to list stdin, no?
> 'ls' could apply fstat to stdin and show the results.

Good point.
Not long ago, I found a good enough use case:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18175

to justify changing stat-without-"-f" to interpret "-" as stdin:

    http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=a033e28737c1f6320