There's a directory /dev/fd which contains files 0, 1 and 2.
They corresponmd to stdin, out and err.
Try this:
echo Hello | cat /dev/fd/0
Get it?
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Pete Peterson wrote:
=>Some commands understand "-" as meaning STDIN in place of input file or
=>STDOUT instead of output file. Other than making temp files, is there
=>some easy way to make a command that DOESN'T have this convention read
=>from STDIN and/or write to STDOUT.
=>
=>In my particular case, I'd like to convert Postscript files to PDF files.
=>
=>I can do"
=> ps2pdf -r300 -g3300x5100 infile.ps outfile.pdf
=>
=>But I'd really like to have a FILTER that might do something like:
=>
=>program_making_ps | postscript2pdf [opts] | uuencode widget.pdf | mail whoever
=>
=>Obviously, I could make "postscript2pdf" be a script that wrote STDIN to a
=>temp file, ran ps2pdf to create another temp file, output that to STDOUT,
=>and deleted the temp file, but I thought I remembered there was some less
=>ugly way to accomplish that with a wrapper that didn't involve creating
=>temporary files.
=>
=>
=> pete peterson
=>
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