pipes like perl

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> "infidel" <saint.infidel at gmail.com> (i) wrote:

>i> .readlines() won't return until it hits end-of-file, but the "man"
>i> command waits for user input to scroll the content, like the "more" or
>i> "less" commands let you view "pages" of information on a terminal.

man shouldn't wait for user input if its output is a pipe. Try man man|cat.
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