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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check for Input Redirection in my script? Post 302408559 by dennis.jacob on Tuesday 30th of March 2010 12:35:36 AM
Old 03-30-2010
I guess you are looking for something like this??

test.sh
Code:
exec 6<&0
while read line
do
echo $line
done<&6

exec 6<&-

And now, you can call like below..

Code:
sh test.sh < file

 

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NAME
guess-helper - Tries to guess the configuration by comparing four dumps of the NVRAM. SYNOPSIS
guess-helper DESCRIPTION
guess-helper is a helper program from the package nvram-wakeup. It will guide you through the procedure of creating the files needed for the program guess and eventually will run guess at the end. The output will be a configuration file which might even work ;-) Don't change any other BIOS settings you are not told to change until the procedure is finished. See README.mb for more details. SEE ALSO
nvram-wakeup(8), guess(8), README.mb HOMEPAGE
http://sf.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/ AUTHOR
Written by Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>. REPORTING BUGS
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