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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cat a script, pipe it, then pass arguments to it? Post 302974941 by SkySmart on Monday 6th of June 2016 11:47:18 AM
Old 06-06-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Code:
$ echo 'echo asdf $1 $2 $3'

asdf $1 $2 $3

# For bash scripts, sh -s arg1 arg2 arg3 ...
# Be sure to use the appropriate shell, bash for bash scripts,
# ksh for ksh scripts, etc.
$ echo 'echo asdf $1 $2 $3' | sh -s a b c

asdf a b c

# For perl scripts:
$ cat script.pl | perl - arg1 arg2 arg3 ...

You can tell this is kind of language specific.
looks like this is exactly what i needed.

so we have answers for:

shell scripts
perl scripts

any ideas on:

python?
ruby?
 

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