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From: wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (Georg Wittig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: execute stdin ?
Message-ID: <3335@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 13 Sep 90 12:46:26 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: GMD - The German National Research Center for Computer Science
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Is it possible (in sh or in csh) to execute a program that is read from
stdin? For example, if the program ``myprog'' is in compressed format, it
isn't nice to type

	uncompress myprog.Z ; myprog params_of_myprog ; compress myprog

Rather, it would be nice to be able to write something like

	zcat myprog.Z | execute_stdin params_of_myprog
or	`zcat myprog.Z`	params_of_myprog
or	???

Any ideas? Thanks in advance
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