On Apr 11, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 12/4/2006, at 2:59, David W.Body wrote:
I don't know if there is something specific to my environment that may be causing it [...]
Try put #!/bin/sh at the top of the command, i.e. making it:
#!/bin/sh cat
This will skip all the usual shell startup stuff.
That fixes the behavior. Any idea what might be the underlying cause, or where I should start looking?