Re: History -r breaks on FIFOs

On 21/01/2021 16:18, Merijn Verstraaten wrote:
> The history command doesn't seem to work when given a FIFO instead of a file. I was trying to load 
> history from FIFO using either 'history -r <(echo "$hist")' or 'echo "$hist" | 
> history -r /dev/stdin', but neither of these seem to work, due to the command being unable to handle 
> FIFOs.

As the second command doesn't make for a valid test case, I'll add some 
additional context.

# Succeeds
echo injected > commandlist; ( history -r commandlist && history 1 )
# Fails
echo injected | { history -r /dev/stdin && history 1; }

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Kerin Millar