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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#25283: grep: (standard input): invalid argument when run from make |
| Date: | Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:14:38 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 |
Mike Frysinger wrote:
this fails:
(make -v | grep .) >/dev/null 2>&1
but this works:
(make -v | grep .) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
That's the same issue, because GNU 'make' sets stderr's O_APPEND flag too, so in the former case grep's stdout is in append mode whereas in the latter case it's not.
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