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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards,net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: pipe breaking
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Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 17:44:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 17:44:58 1985
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In article <478@sdcc12.UUCP> np42pf@sdcc12.UUCP (Pierre Flament) writes:
>The following construct (sub-shell, see sh(1)) will allow redirection of
>the input to the terminal after finding the eof without any special code
>in the program:
>(ccat file;cat) | plotting_program

Even easier is
cat file - | plotting_program

(see cat(1))
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