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From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,btl.unix
Subject: Re: A question on input redirection
Message-ID: <2627@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Sep-83 21:51:48 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 17 21:51:48 1983
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	I have been trying to come up with a generalized
	way to direct input to a command such that it takes
	it's input from a file for a while and then begins
	taking input from the standard input (keyboard).

If your command is 'cmd', why not:
	cat file1 file2 ... filen - | cmd
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