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From: subbarao@beam.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Temporary stdin redirect
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Date: 4 Feb 91 22:42:03 GMT
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In article <20798@unix.SRI.COM> ubi@ginger.sri.com (Ron Ueberschaer x4399) writes:
>
>There ought to be a way to start a program off with stdin redirected
>from a file, then take over from real stdin.  Does such a capability
>exist in UNIX, preferably under csh?  This would be analogous to the
>>> append syntax, e.g.
>
>	foo << start.input
>
>would use start.input until EOF, then act normally, reading the terminal
>for remaining input.
>

You can use cat to do this:

cat start.input - | foo


			-Kartik

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