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From: paul@tetrauk.UUCP (Paul Ashton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Why is 'more' giving the 'next file' prompt?
Message-ID: <471@tetrauk.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 23:05:16 GMT
References: <1990May3.160744.25250@bath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: paul@tetrauk.UUCP (Paul Ashton)
Organization: Tetra Ltd., Maidenhead, UK
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In article <1990May3.160744.25250@bath.ac.uk> exspes@bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes:
>   cat fred | csh -c 'cat >tempxxx ; more tempxxx'
>
>Before 'more' puts anything out, it gives the 'Next file (tempxxx):'
>prompt.  Why does it think tempxxx is the second file?  What's the
>first?
>

The first file is fred (stdin, which is not a tty so more's in filter mode)
cat has read all stdin so more gets nothing and prompts for the next file.
So for more not to prompt stdin must me a tty. eg
cat fred | csh -c 'cat >tempxxx ; more tempxxx < /dev/tty'

pity you haven't got pg
--
Paul