A question on input redirection

ron at brl-vgr ron at brl-vgr
Tue Sep 27 05:26:31 AEST 1983


From:      Ron Natalie <ron at brl-vgr>

I'm sorry but:
	cat file1 file2 - file3 | program
is not the same as
	cat file1 file2 /dev/tty file3 | program.

The former, I assert, is more what the user wanted.  For if you
make a shell script with the former called "foo" and do

	foo < filex

It does what you would expect while the second would always read
"/dev/tty" regardless of what the standard input was set to.

-Ron



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