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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: -T and named pipes
Message-ID: <11483@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 18 Feb 91 22:03:54 GMT
References: <521@rufus.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <521@rufus.UUCP> singer@ibm.com (David Singer) writes:
: It seems that -T and -B should return "false" on a named pipe without 
: trying to read it.

That would be fascist.  What if you want to use -T or -B to find out whether
a pipe is returning text or binary data?

Better would be to hide the -T/B behind a !-p, in my hubristic opinion.

Larry