With gpg --decrypt x.tar.gpg | vault absorb, vault printed its prompt
while gpg was still writing to the terminal, which buried it, so the
command looked hung. Peek at standard input first: the upstream program
has finished with the terminal by the time data arrives, and an empty
pipe now fails without asking at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Andy DixonandClaude Opus 5.5