On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > I'm trying to write a shell script that will noninteractively accept > a chunk of text on standard input, but haven't been able to figure out > how to go about doing so. What I'm trying to do is write a script that > will get called by an exim filter. Accroding to the exim docs, when a > script is called by the filter, the script is run and the message is > passed on the standard input. > > I tried having a look through the bash man page - I found references on > redirecting stdin and stdout and stderr, all of which I already knew. > What I couldn't find was *any* mention of was how to *use* stdin from > within a shell script. Anyone here ever done anything like this?
What about /dev/stdin?
cat <<EOF > foo.scr
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hi, this is a shell script"
cat /dev/stdin
EOF
chmod +x foo.scr
echo "This is standard input" | ./foo.scr
...is that what you want?
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