From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16417 invoked from network); 23 Jun 1998 22:09:47 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Jun 1998 22:09:47 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA02245; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:04:09 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:01:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <980623150145.ZM1264@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:01:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: <19980623163758.05103@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu> Comments: In reply to Sweth Chandramouli "easy way to read from stdin ?" (Jun 23, 4:37pm) References: <19980623163758.05103@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: Sweth Chandramouli , ZSH Users Subject: Re: easy way to read from stdin ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"mOa5k2.0.JW.XM2ar"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1649 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Jun 23, 4:37pm, Sweth Chandramouli wrote: } Subject: easy way to read from stdin ? } } this is probably just going to show my colossal cluelessness, but is } there an easy way to get a zsh script to read from standard input? It should be reading everything except the commands themselves from the standard input "by default." However, I'm puzzled when you say: } ... rather than reading input from a file ... What is it that you are doing to cause it to read from a file? That is, when it's not a cgi, how do you run it? } i tried a } "while read ... ; do ... done" loop with no redirection of input, but that } didn't seem to work right. How exactly did it not work? What, if any, flags are you passing to read? (For example, the -q flag will forcibly open /dev/tty ....) } what am i missing here? You can try "read -u0 ..." to force the input to come from file descriptor zero, but I don't know why that would be necessary. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com