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Re: bash redirection problem


On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:20:25 +0000 "Newman, Robin" <rbn@oundle.northants.sch.uk> wrote:

> I'm trying to get bash scripts (from the ht//dig multidig
>  scripts) to work under cygwin which incorporate commands
>  like
> cat /dev/stdin >> somefilename
> They work ok under linux, but cygwin (latest version
>  installed yesterday) returns
> cat: /dev/stdin: no such file or directory
> there isn't a /dev directory as in linux
> What is the workaround if any to sort this to allow stdin
>  to be redirected to a file?

>From the top of 'info cat':

| `cat': Concatenate and write files
| ==================================
|
|    `cat' copies each FILE (`-' means standard input), or standard input
| if none are given, to standard output.  Synopsis:

Have you tried 'cat >> somefilename' or 'cat - >> somefilename'?

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