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From: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
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Subject: Re: shell script that takes piped input?
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 rene@xs4all.nl wrote:

> Hi, this might be off-topic, but I risk it anyway ;)
>
> I would like to be pointed to an example of how to program a shell-script
> that can do something with a file it gets through a pipe, as such:
> somehost%myconfig | myscript.sh
>
> Thanx in advance for any usefull answers you might share with me..

Check out the 'read' command in sh. Example:

#!/bin/sh

while read foo
do
        echo $foo
done


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