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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Passing multi-line arguments through c-shell
Keywords: options csh strings
Message-ID: <15503@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 04:16:05 GMT
References: <259@bridge2.3Com.Com>
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <259@bridge2.3Com.Com> jzs@bridge2.3Com.Com (Jeremy A. Siegel)
writes:
>How can I get a c-shell script to pass multi-line terminal input as a 
>single argument to a program?

By using an sh script instead.

>... I tried: ... -y"`cat`" ...

Works fine with sh; but csh has serious problems with newlines, and
converts them to spaces instead.
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