On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, John wrote: >Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:54:06 +0800 (WST) >From: John <psyche@computerdatasafe.com.au> >To: psyche-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: bash and perl output of 'hello' with no \n doesn't work > >On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Marc Murphy wrote: > >> Has anyone else encountered this problem with a fresh install? >> >> #!/usr/bin/perl >> print 'hello'; >> >> Does not print, but if I redirect the output to a file using, it does. >> It also will print if I use the \n character. When I use csh the >> newline character is not needed. Can anyone tell me what is going on? >> >It is not a Perl problem: >summer@orange summer]$ xxd x >0000000: 6865 6c6c 6f hello >[summer@orange summer]$ cat x >[summer@orange summer]$ > > > >I'm beginning to think Psyche is a good one to miss. Why? You're doing something that is inherently broken. If you slow everything down so that it is visible, you will see "hello" displayed, then see the program return to bash, which displays the prompt. The prompt overwrites the line because there was no trailing newline. Go ahead and miss Psyche. Spend the time reading programming manuals to learn how stuff works instead. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
