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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: standard input to commands in a shell script
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Date: 14 Oct 90 15:29:50 GMT
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In article <BARNETT.90Oct12154348@grymoire.crd.ge.com>, barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes:
|> 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
|>  (echo "user anonymous ${USER-${LOGNAME}}@`hostname`"; echo dir; echo quit) | \
|> 	   ftp uunet.uu.net

  Neither of these examples will work, unless you supply "-n" option to ftp. 
Bruce, you got that right in your original posting on this subject, but forgot
it here :-).

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