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List:       perl-qa
Subject:    Re: Stupid prove tricks
From:       Jonathan Rockway <jon () jrock ! us>
Date:       2009-02-26 9:04:32
Message-ID: 87iqmx1sdb.fsf () bar ! jrock ! us
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* On Wed, Feb 25 2009, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Here's a kind of crappy way to make TAP read from STDIN.
>
>   $ prove --exec 'cat -' test.dummy
>   test....
>
> Now you can write TAP and finish with ctrl-d.  But test.dummy has to exist.

I just tried this, and it works without test.dummy existing (although it
complains after you type the TAP).  This doesn't happen if you use
/dev/null, though (as in prove --exec 'cat -' /dev/null).

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