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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Shell scripts waiting for foreground
Message-ID: <737@turtlevax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 15:30:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 15:30:36 1985
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Reply-To: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Organization: CADLINC, Inc. @ Menlo Park, CA
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I would like to write a shell script that dumps its standard input to a
file, then cats the file when the end-of-input has been found.  It will
do this as long as the program is running in the foreground.  If in the
background, it will print out a short message, then wait to come to the
foreground before it prints the file.

Can this be done with either sh or csh?  Or do I need to write a C
program?  I am running 4.2bsd.
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Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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