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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting reading input from a file Post 302274512 by JerryHone on Wednesday 7th of January 2009 07:12:57 PM
Old 01-07-2009
Are you :-
a) taking an argument on the command line and explicitly opening the filename specified in the program?
or
b) is your C program reading standard input?

From your description, it sounds like the program is written assuming (a) but you're attempting to run it assuming (b) i.e. the '<' is causing the shell to open the file and redirect it to your program as STDIN.

As Franklin52 says, a code fragment would clarify things.

Hope that helps.

Jerry
 

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