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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:22:53 -0500
From: "Matt D." <matt AT codespunk DOT com>
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Bash pipe doesn't work at all with any of the 2.05 binaries. All of 
these fail:

sh.exe
sh-2.05$ echo 1 | cat
sh-2.05$ echo 1 | while read a; do echo $a; done
sh-2.05$ echo 1 | (read a && echo $a)

I am using DJGPP with MSDOS 7.1. Is this operating system not supported?

Please advise.


Matt D.

On 11/17/2013 11:25 PM, Matt D. wrote:
> I just downloaded bsh204br3.zip from current but when executing the
> following script I get an error "Bad file descriptor (EBADF)":
>
> echo 1 | cat
>
> I tried downloading the latest beta bsh205bbr3.zip but then whenever I
> pipe something into cat, nothing gets output to the screen.
>
> Is there a more recent version of bash I can download which fixes these
> problems?
>
>
> Matt D.
>
>
>