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Date:      Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:47:35 -0700
From:      Rohit Grover <rgrover@panasas.com>
To:        Antonio Inojal <tony12@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: piping to a script
Message-ID:  <3D6A77C7.50FFCE3@panasas.com>
References:  <A2239392-B90F-11D6-872F-000502A96E77@mac.com>

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Antonio Inojal wrote:
> 
> Hello, I am trying to pipe content from a C program into a shell script.
> What I want to do is to pass the information coming from the C app, into
> an environmental variable in the shell script:
> 
> my_app | my_script .
> 
> Say that my app spits out the date, ok?
> I want that an env variable declared in my_script pick up the data being
> piped and make that data its value.
> If anyone knows how to do this, or if I have not explained myself right
> please contact me. Thank You very much.


$ ENV_VAR=`my_app` my_script

PS: hackers is not the right forum for such questions.

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