[Gllug] Bourne shell programming

[Progga]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:24:07AM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> How can I replace stdin with the output of my previous command? I need
> to be able to read from the pipeline....

grep root /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $1,$2,$3}' > tmp.txt

exec 3< tmp.txt

while read x <&3
do
	some stuff
done

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