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Redirecting stdin with stdout to file
So I have a program that takes in user input and outputs text based on the input.
EDIT2: I want to create a script that runs a C executable and the script feeds the C program input from a file and ...
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Getting stdin from a named pipe
What I am trying to do is run python in a terminal window and redirect it's stdin from a named pipe. Then I write to the named pipe in another terminal and have that command execute on python.
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background process pipe-input
if i want to display "aaa" on screen:
(1)$: echo aaa | cat ... works OK
(2)$: echo aaa | ( cat ) ... works OK
(3)$: echo aaa | ( cat & ) ... NOT working
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Pipe Password to Application When Asked
The following should be done in a bash script:
curl --digest --user schmijos https://bitbucket.org/u/p/get/tip.zip -o tip.zip
How can I automatically submit a password to curl when it asks for it? ...
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Make program first read from pipe, then from keyboard
Consider the interactive program interactive. I have to run this program fairly frequently, and each time I run it the first few commands are the same. Obviously, having to type those commands over ...
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How a piped shell programs balance their output/input rates? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bash while loop and reading from pipe
I come from web programming background, and find myself interested in one peculiarity of using a local shell. I understand that ...
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3answers
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How to make wc interpret standard in as a file list
I know that there are other ways to go about this, but I'm looking to be able to make wc interpret stdin as a file name or list of file names. For example,
ls JP*/std* | wc
would work the same as ...
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3answers
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How do I make python programs behave like proper unix tools?
I have a few Python scripts laying around, and I'm working on rewriting them. I have the same problem with all of them.
It's not obvious to me how to write the programs so that they behave like ...
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5answers
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Where are command line arguments (e.g. 'some.text') actually passed to?
From what I know, parameters you pass to a command, goes to it's STDIN stream.
so this:
cut -d. -f2 'some.text'
should be perfectly identical to this:
echo 'some.text' | cut -d. -f2
as we send ...
3
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1answer
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How can I pipe a path to pushd?
This seems like it should be easy enough to do, but I'm clearly not understanding something fundamental about piping output back and forth.
I'm trying to do something like this:
bundle show ...
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Can I pipe stdout on one server to stdin on another server?
stdout on one CentOS server needs to be piped to stdin on another CentOS server. Is this possible?
Update
ScottPack, MikeyB and jofel all have valid answers. I awarded the answer to Scott because, ...
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what is meant by connecting STDOUT and STDIN?
This is a newbie question. I'm reading a book, it says:
Every process has at least three communication channels available to it: “standard
input” (STDIN), “standard output” (STDOUT), and ...
