[aklug] Re: noob scripting question -- file input/output

I think you can get the same results by doing something like this:

foo < datain > dataout

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Christopher Howard
<choward@indicium.us> wrote:
> Forgive the newbie question. Say I've got a C program called foo, and
> foo takes input from stdin, processes it, and prints results to stdout.
> I know that in a shell I can use files for stdin/stdout like this
> (because it worked when I tried):
>
> $ cat datain | foo | cat > dataout
>
> Can I get the same results without using cat?
>
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Received on Fri Oct 31 13:09:39 2008