pipe breaking
Spencer W. Thomas
thomas at utah-gr.UUCP
Tue Nov 19 08:44:58 AEST 1985
In article <478 at sdcc12.UUCP> np42pf at sdcc12.UUCP (Pierre Flament) writes:
>The following construct (sub-shell, see sh(1)) will allow redirection of
>the input to the terminal after finding the eof without any special code
>in the program:
>(ccat file;cat) | plotting_program
Even easier is
cat file - | plotting_program
(see cat(1))
--
=Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas at utah-cs.ARPA)
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