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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Creating file and passing argument to a command Post 302990972 by Scrutinizer on Friday 3rd of February 2017 03:19:24 PM
Old 02-03-2017
I don't know if you utility ftptransfer can process stdin. If so you could use a "here document" .

For example (I do not know filetransfer, so it is just a guess if it works that way, you would need to check the manual):
Code:
ftptransfer << EOF
file1
file2
EOF

If you are using modern bash, ksh93 or zsh you could also try process substitution, something like:
Code:
ftptransfer -i <(printf "%s\n" file1 file2)

or turn a here document in to a "file"

Code:
ftptransfer -i <(cat << EOF
file1
file2
EOF
)

or an example using a here-string

Code:
files="file1
file2"

ftptransfer -i <(cat <<< "$files")

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-03-2017 at 04:27 PM..
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DwtMainSetAreas(3Dwt)													     DwtMainSetAreas(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtMainSetAreas - Sets up or adds the menu bar, command window, work window, and scroll bar widgets to the main window widget of the appli-
       cation.

Syntax
       void DwtMainSetAreas(widget, menu_bar, work_window,
			    command_window, horizontal_scroll_bar,
			    vertical_scroll_bar)
	    Widget widget;
	    Widget menu_bar;
	    Widget work_window, command_window;
	    Widget horizontal_scroll_bar, vertical_scroll_bar;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the main window widget ID.

       menu_bar  Specifies the widget ID for the menu bar to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID only  after  creating
		 an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this argument is DwtNmenuBar.

       work_window
		 Specifies  the widget ID for the work window to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID only after creat-
		 ing an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this argument is DwtNworkWindow.

       command_window
		 Specifies the widget ID for the command window to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID only after cre-
		 ating an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this argument is DwtNcommandWindow.

       horizontal_scroll_bar
		 Specifies  the scroll bar widget ID for the horizontal scroll bar to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this
		 ID only after creating an instance of the main window widget.	The attribute name associated with this argument  is  DwtNhorizon-
		 talScrollBar.

       vertical_scroll_bar
		 Specifies the scroll bar widget ID for the vertical scroll bar to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID
		 only after creating an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute  name  associated  with  this  argument  is	DwtNverti-
		 calScrollBar.

Description
       The  DwtMainSetAreas  function  sets up or adds the menu bar, work window, command window, and scroll bar widgets to the application's main
       window widget.  You must set these areas up before the main window widget is realized, that is, before calling the  X  intrinsics  function
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