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Oops..

(thanks for pushing it to the list... <g>)

Assuming:

echo "hello" | ./myscript

Try:


read string

(as the scripts standard input will have the 'hello' arriving on it)...
You'll need to parse the 'string' then if you want it split up into bits
etc...

Regards,

Karl


Dean Hollister wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > string=$1
> 
> No. That would only be useful if I did:
> 
> scriptname inputofsomesort
> 
> which isn't happening. I'm piping a line of text into a bash script.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> d.
> 
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