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0 pointsbluetomcat9y ago0 comments

With cat being the notable exception :-)

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marcosdumay9y ago· 1 in thread

And grep.

Programs that use the input and output to carry data around can not show prompts to the user.

A workaround is to prompt on STDERR. Data input will enter the same place, and output will be distinguished from the text for prompts.

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