[_8j50]

Banged my head against the wall once after trying to figure out why Ctrl+D generates some character in bash but I can't send that character in a pipe to simulate termination.

[kylek]

Fun fact, ctrl-v in bash sets "verbatim insert" mode for the next character, so you can type a ^D "character" by doing "ctrl-v ctrl-d".

[pwdisswordfish2]

It’s not bash, it’s the tty device driver. Applications can switch between the ‘cooked’ mode (which recognises it as EOF) and ‘raw’ mode (which passes it through) by performing some ioctl I don’t really want to look up right now.

[nixpulvis]

I think I may still be banging my head on this one. It's just an ioctl difference between my pipe and my terminal's session, right?

[enriquto]

> Banged my head against the wall once after trying to figure out why Ctrl+D generates some character in bash but I can't send that character in a pipe to simulate termination.

Yes, you can. You just end your stream by closing the pipe.