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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers When do I use input redirection? Post 302857707 by inventsekar on Friday 27th of September 2013 03:06:47 AM
Old 09-27-2013
$ echo hi
--- it just prints "hi" on the screen.
if i want to send the output to a file, then i will use output redirection.
$ echo hi > test-hi

in the same, input redirection is just the same.

Input redirection can be useful if you have written a program which expects input from the terminal and you want to provide it from a file. In the following example, myprog, which was written to read standard input and write standard output, is redirected to read myin.

$ myprog < myin
 

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