On Jan 29, 2008 5:25 PM, Alok G. Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am doing it this way now. I read whatever there is on the standard > input > > into a variable : > > > > read -d "^d" VAR > > You could just read from stdin: > > read -d "^d" <&1 >
My read was in the context of reading the piped output from a previous command in my shell script. Hence if i have read -d "^d" VAR echo $VAR in a file called myscript.sh then $ cat AFILE | ./myscript.sh also achieves the same thing. Although as Gora said, the newlines get swallowed up. -- 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/
