Stop accepting more args than the optional format string and explicitly read only from stdin.
In the linked Debian bug report, a detailed description about irregular behaviour of ts with special extra args is available. Reported-by: Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> Co-developed-by: Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> Link: https://bugs.debian.org/1041291#5 Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nico...@fjasle.eu> --- ts | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ts b/ts index 71b0fbc..982c164 100755 --- a/ts +++ b/ts @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ GetOptions( "i" => \$inc, "s" => \$sincestart, "m" => \$mono -) || die "usage: ts [-r] [-i | -s] [-m] [format]\n"; +) && @ARGV <= 1 or die "usage: ts [-r] [-i | -s] [-m] [format]\n"; if ($rel) { eval q{ @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ else { } -while (<>) { +while (<STDIN>) { if (! $rel) { if ($hires) { my $f=$format; -- 2.42.0