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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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On 2008-02-27 14:21, RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:15:51 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > one can easily write:
> > 
> > 	find . -name '*.ogg' | \
> > 	while read file ; do \
> > 		blah "${file}"
> > 	done
> 
> If blah is interactive, it will try to take its input from the pipe
> instead of the terminal. Is there a way around this? (I know xargs can
> handle it with -o)

You can use /dev/tty as input in the loop iteration:

	find . -name '*.ogg' | \
	while read file ; do \
		blah "${file}" < /dev/tty ; \
	done