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		hrktb on May 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shell Style Guide You can hit EOF or EOT in a stream of UTF-8 or other multi-byte encoding as part of a character. There must be ways to have it handled through something that understands character encodings and workaround the issue, but I know that dumb shell piping will fumble on those.

JdeBP on May 15, 2018 [–]

    % printf '\x04\necho EOT is not EOF in a pipe.\n' | bash
    bash: line 1: $'\004': command not found
    EOT is not EOF in a pipe.
    %

Pipes do not contain line disciplines and thus do not do special character processing.

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