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On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:02:42 EDT Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>  wrote:
> As a general rule, programs don't expect to share their input with
> other programs, nor do they make guarantees about what is and isn't
> read from that input under those conditions. I'd say that shell
> scripts that depend on what some command does with it's unprocessed
> input are buggy.

Fair enough. Thanks!