pipe breaking

[Daniel R. Levy]

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
>
>A ^D should be send to end the keyboard input

Good idea.  Maybe

(ccat file; echo Keyboard input started > /dev/tty; cat -) | plotting-program

would be even better to let the user know when to begin typing (if what
is typed depends on what came out of the program and couldn't necessarily
be typed ahead).
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