simple bash script - redirect pipe- ignore

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

Please ignore this post. cat |nprint works great! Thanks,

Ben

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Ben Luey wrote:

> 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'".
> > 
> > 
> > ---------(( Christopher Reid Palmer : www.pconline.com/~reid/ ))---------
> > 
> >               the characters i am, made into a word complete
> >                               -- Meshuggah
> > 
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> Ben Luey
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Ben Luey
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So the GOP thinks the American public has a short-term memory. Well, I have
one word for them -- potatoe.       
        -- Karen Baird, Letters to Editor, San Francisco Chronicle 12/17/98