Re: [TCLUG:3948] simple bash script - redirect pipe

[Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Ben Luey wrote:

> How do I control what is piped to a script? 
> I want to be able to type
> 
> `cat myfile |myscript'
> 
> and myscript will redirect the pipe (ie contents of myfile) to someother
> program.

You don't want to pipe, you want to redirect. Try this:

myscript < myfile

That means, "Take 'myfile' as the input for 'myscript'".


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