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From: jms@romana.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: execute stdin ?
Summary: "sh -s"
Message-ID: <1244@romana.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 00:00:25 GMT
References: <3335@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <3335@gmdzi.gmd.de> wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (Georg Wittig) writes:
>Is it possible (in sh or in csh) to execute a program that is read from stdin?

Yes, use the "-s" option to sh.  For example:

	(echo 'ls -l $1'; echo 'wc $1') | sh -s /etc/motd

As simple as that.
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