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From: pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Falstad)
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Subject: Re: Partial redirection??
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Date: 21 Mar 91 18:10:15 GMT
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lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu () wrote:
>Is there any way to "partially redirect" a file to a process.  That is,
>I want the process to take its input from 'filename' until EOF, and then
>accept input from stdin.

cat filename - | command

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