"Shawn O. Pearce" wrote: > Why cat? Tcl is so horribly broken that to get data for both stdout > and stderr through a pipe I have to do something sick like: > > git fetch 2>&1 | cat > > because in Tcl its actually: > > set rdr [open "| git fetch |& cat" r] > > The |& means 2>&1| in normal shell. But that means I have to have > a process after it to receive the data. Normally that's cat. > But MinGW doesn't have cat. (Nor do they have dog, but neither > does Linux...). So I need a way to redirect output. Are you planning for the future? Currently, the MinGW port works only with MSYS installed and $MSYS/bin in your PATH because the shell scripts need an assorted set of POSIX tools. MSYS does ship 'cat', of course. -- Hannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
