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Re: Weird behavior with redirecting stdin



hello, anyone has suggestions on this?
regards

Il giorno lun 2 set 2019 alle ore 15:59 Aryn Starr <
whereislelouch@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

> With these functions:
>
> ```
> fcm () {
> # Function for selecting a command interactively
>         echo ${(F)commands} | fzf
> }
>
> teec () {
> # Dumbed down version of a function that both echoes and copies to
> clipboard. (Current toy version just echoes.)
>         local out="$(</dev/stdin)"
>         print -r -- "$out"
> }
> ```
>
> I can do `fcm | teec` and it works correctly.
> However, if I change `teec` to this:
>
> ```
> teec () {
>         echo 'echo hi' | { eval "$(</dev/stdin)" }
>         local out="$(</dev/stdin)"
>         print -r -- "$out"
> }
> ```
>
> Then running `fcm | teec` hangs (after printing `hi`) and doesn’t even get
> interrupted with ^D or ^C.
> I don’t understand why these problems occur at all, and I have no idea how
> to go about fixing them ...


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