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From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
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Subject: Re: standard input to commands in a shell script
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Date: 12 Oct 90 19:43:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: meissner@osf.org's message of 12 Oct 90 19:28:54 GMT

In article <MEISSNER.90Oct12152854@osf.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:

>   (echo "user anonymous"; echo "${USER-${LOGNAME}}@`hostname`"; echo dir; echo quit) | \
>	   ftp uunet.uu.net

Try:

 (echo "user anonymous ${USER-${LOGNAME}}@`hostname`"; echo dir; echo quit) | \
	   ftp uunet.uu.net
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