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Why did they implement this behaviour for the percent sign?

rubo77
– rubo77

2022-06-07 00:53:13 +00:00
Commented Jun 7, 2022 at 0:53
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@rubo77 Some commands can accept input from stdin, so this behaviour of % might be useful when calling such commands. I have never used it myself, but perhaps you might want to pass "y" over standard input, to answer a yes/no confirmation prompt from the command, or pass some commands to an ftp client, to initiate the transfer of a file.

joeytwiddle
– joeytwiddle

2023-09-08 09:32:00 +00:00
Commented Sep 8, 2023 at 9:32

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