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Old 10-21-2005
read from terminal
If I do:

cat file | write user

I can cat a file to a users terminal. My question is, how can this user read the input and cat it into a file?

I tried the reverse:

read | file
or
read > file
etc.
But it didn't work.
# 2  
Old 10-21-2005
Try this:
Code:
cat > file
this is a test file
this is the second line of the test file
^D ## this is ctrl-D

The ^D char at the end is the EOF character. On receiving this char, cat will stop reading the stdin of the user and close the file.
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