xargs nano leads to Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM while xargs less is OK

Asked Feb 16 '22 at 14:17

Active Feb 18 '22 at 13:41

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Scenario:

$ cat t0.txt
t1.txt

$ cat t1.txt
xxx

$ sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs less
# OK

$ sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs nano
Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM

dvl-linux64 $ nano --version
 GNU nano, version 2.5.3

How to open file in nano? If not xargs, then what?

UPD. On Cywgin:

$ sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs less
# OK

$ sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs nano
Too many errors from stdin

$ sed -n 1p t0.txt | nano
Too many errors from stdin

Buffer written to nano.save

$ nano --version
 GNU nano, version 4.9

edited Feb 18 '22 at 13:41

asked Feb 16 '22 at 14:17

pmor

If you're using nano 2.2 or later you should be able just to pipe directly to nano. [Check this post](http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/TODO) – Rawley Fowler Feb 16 '22 at 14:22
See UPD. On Linux the version 2.5.3, on Windows (Cygwin) it is 4.9. Any ideas? – pmor Feb 18 '22 at 13:43
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Try `sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs --open-tty nano`. Someone take it from here please, as I have no time for an educative answer. – Kamil Maciorowski Feb 18 '22 at 13:54
@KamilMaciorowski Thanks! Works for xargs 4.9.0. Doesn't work for xargs 4.7.0: `xargs: unrecognized option '--open-tty'`. – pmor Feb 18 '22 at 14:01
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Without `--open-tty`: `sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs sh -c ' – Kamil Maciorowski Feb 18 '22 at 14:42

xargs nano leads to Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM while xargs less is OK

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