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From: B S Srinidhi <srinidhi@deeproot.co.in>
Subject: Re: problems with QMAILQUEUE and reading stdin
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 17:49:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1148905142.19941.57.camel@avirat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605290808220.23542@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com>

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 08:11 -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
> Why run cat unnecessarily (and depend on /dev/stdin which only sometimes 
> exists)?
> 
> Try:
> 
> tmp=$pq/$(/usr/pkg/bin/safecat "$pq/tmp" "$pq")

hmm... Yeah you are right. :) But is the above thing portable? I mean,
would this work with shells other than BASH?

Srinidhi.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-29 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-29  1:58 George Georgalis
2006-05-29  5:23 ` B S Srinidhi
2006-05-29 12:11   ` Charlie Brady
2006-05-29 12:19     ` B S Srinidhi [this message]
2006-05-29 13:37       ` George Georgalis
2006-05-29 14:38         ` Charlie Brady
2006-05-29 15:49           ` George Georgalis
2006-05-29 15:56             ` Charlie Brady
2006-05-29 20:48             ` George Georgalis
2006-05-29 13:59       ` Charlie Brady

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