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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Problem with 'rm -i' in ksh
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:08:03 +0100
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On 12.01.2025 16:39, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 12.01.2025 15:14, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>> In article <vm0ela$15i9h$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> It's called in a (ksh-)function within a structure like this
>>>
>>>  function f { ... rm ... }
>>>  p1 | p2 | while read ... do ... f ... done
>>>  f
>>
>> When you are in a "... | while read" loop, the stuff inside the while loop
>> has stdin coming from the pipe. 

BTW; there's two calls of 'f', one in the loop (without stdin),
the other outside (supposedly having stdin). - I wonder why the
latter also didn't work; it neither showed the flushed data nor
interrogated the interactive confirmation for the final data.
(Am I still missing something?)

Janis