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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:57:15 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bash question
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On Tue,  7 April 1998 at 16:25:33 +0800, Dean Hollister wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> It's in the man page for test(1).  The name [ is a synonym for test:
>
> Thanks. Now another obvious question. If I:
>
> echo "Text" | bash-script
>
> What "value" is the about output going into the script assigned to, ie,
> from within the script, to put "text" into a string would require:
>
> string=?

If you want the complete input, 
  
  string=$* 

You can also split it into individual parameters ($1, $2, etc.).

Greg

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