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No newline, no print.
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- From: "N. Thomas" <nthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: No newline, no print.
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:44:35 -0500
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When I print something to stdout that doesn't have a newline at the end,
Z-Shell refuses to print it. Note the following Perl program:
print "My name is Bob.\n";
I run like so:
prompt$ perl nl.pl
My name is Bob.
prompt$
Now, using my advanced knowledge of Perl, I change the program to this:
print "My name is Mud.";
(note the missing newline) and I run again:
prompt$ perl nonl.pl
prompt$
Nothing!
To be honest, I do see it -- but it is overwritten by $PS1 a
split-second later.
Not that I spend my time writing Perl programs without newlines in them
(I use Python), but oftentimes badly written programs or processes that
crash will occasionally output something without this newline and I
usually don't catch it quickly enough.
That other shell does this:
trash-2.01$ perl nonl.pl
My name is Mud.trash-2.01$
Note how it doesn't overwrite the output -- this is what I'd like
Z-Shell to do. How can I?
thanks,
Thomas
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N. Thomas
nthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nthomas/
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