Re: problems with QMAILQUEUE and reading stdin

["George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:49:02PM +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote:
>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")

Thank you! I had tried all sorts of ways to read stdin; but I was
always referencing the dev file directly (or cat -). The implicit
stdin worked on first try. :)

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

well I'm using it with NetBSD /bin/sh which I understand is the
closest thing to the original /bin/sh available. (the ash shell
is the closest in Linux).

I'd prefer to specify stdin as an argument, I'd like to retain
that style for helping people (including myself) interpret the
code.  I'm going to take it up on some netbsd list, they are
pretty good at fixing things if they aren't working right.

Thanks again!

// George

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