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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: reverse-tee, or, merging stdout's
Message-ID: <7204@segue.segue.com>
Date: 21 Apr 91 22:16:48 GMT
References: <819@llnl.LLNL.GOV> <1991Apr19.182517.199@rathe.cs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Organization: Segue Software, Inc. - Santa Monica, CA. +1-213-453-2161
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In article <1991Apr19.182517.199@rathe.cs.umn.edu> ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg) writes:
>  Maybe this will work:
>
>  prog1 arg1 arg2 | (cat ; prog2 arg3 arg4 arg5) | prog3

and maybe it won't.  If you have doubts, why not try it before posting?

What will work are

   prog1 arg1 arg2 | (cat - ; prog2 arg3 arg4 arg5) | prog3

and

   ( prog1 arg1 arg2 ; prog2 arg3 arg4 arg5) | prog3