Re: cat - -

[jidanni]

MF> what were you expecting to happen ? it is not possible for cat to
MF> re-read stdin once it has consumed it.

Yes, but you don't document it I bet. At least not in the path that
starts with man cat.

Just reading the coreutils docs, one wouldn't know why
$ date|cat q b - c q - q - b
worked except stdin only showed up once...
Hmmm maybe also some pipes would also...