On Jan 29, 2008 2:52 PM, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't know specifically about AIX, but the read built-in command > reads from standard input. Whether that comes from a terminal or > a pipe is immaterial. See the "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" section > under the bash manpage for details. > I am doing it this way now. I read whatever there is on the standard input into a variable : read -d "^d" VAR the ^d signifies that the end of file should be used as the delimiter to determine the end of input instead of a newline. I don't really need to process the standard input line by line, so i suppose this should be good enough. Thanks -- Puneet http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ Latest Post: Tutorial on SVN setup and usage _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
