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

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind in future, but for my current purpose, I
don't think it will work. The context is setting up a printer filter. lpr
is going to pipe the file to be printed to my filter. I want my script
simply to redirect that to nprint. myscript < myfile would work if I had a
file, but instead I need do "nprint < what-was-piped-to-myscript

Thanks,

Ben




On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Christopher Palmer wrote:

> 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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