Passing multi-line arguments through c-shell
Chris Torek
chris at mimsy.UUCP
Wed Jan 18 14:16:05 AEST 1989
In article <259 at bridge2.3Com.Com> jzs at bridge2.3Com.Com (Jeremy A. Siegel)
writes:
>How can I get a c-shell script to pass multi-line terminal input as a
>single argument to a program?
By using an sh script instead.
>... I tried: ... -y"`cat`" ...
Works fine with sh; but csh has serious problems with newlines, and
converts them to spaces instead.
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