read from terminal - Shell Programming and Scripting

rein · #1 (**permalink**) 10-21-2005

If I do:

cat file | write user

I can cat a file to a users terminal. My question is, how can this user read the input and cat it into a file?

I tried the reverse:

read | file
or
read > file
etc.
But it didn't work.

blowtorch · #2 (**permalink**) 10-21-2005

Try this:

Code:

cat > file
this is a test file
this is the second line of the test file
^D ## this is ctrl-D

The ^D char at the end is the EOF character. On receiving this char, cat will stop reading the stdin of the user and close the file.

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