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Re: 1.7.9: zsh, "unexpected end of file"
- From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- To: Thomas Hafner <{^_^} at hafner dot NL dot EU dot ORG>
- Cc: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:11:21 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: 1.7.9: zsh, "unexpected end of file"
- References: <20111130204840.8840E1412D4@faun.hafner.NL.EU.ORG>
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Thomas Hafner wrote:
Hello,
Greetings, Thomas,
(sorry for the late reply)
could zsh be repaired such that it behaves successfully like bash?
Here goes the problem description.
1. In shell /usr/bin/zsh-4.3.12.exe:
gunzip < r1s.gz > r1s
- Expected: unpack to r1s
- Observed: command fails with output "gzip: stdin: unexpected end of
file"
2. However this works:
gunzip r1s.gz
3. If I repeat 1. with bash rather than zsh, it works.
The file r1s.gz can be get there http://tinyurl.com/bs7kefh .
Most curious.
I can repro your symptoms. However, the following combinations do work:
cat r1s.gz | gunzip > r1s
zcat r1s.gz > r1s
It seems only directly re-directing stdin fails.
Hmm...there's something rather strange about this specific .gz file of
yours. I'll have to analyse it a little more to determine what's going
on. On a guess, I'd say there's a control sequence in it that's tickling
the I/O handler in some interesting way.
How, exactly, (if I may ask), did you create this file?
It looks like random noise to me.
Regards
Thomas Hafner
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