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Date:      Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:28:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
To:        <rene@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: shell script that takes piped input?
Message-ID:  <20011024132652.Y85958-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20011024222356.B18891@xs4all.nl>

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 rene@xs4all.nl wrote:

> Hi, this might be off-topic, but I risk it anyway ;)
>
> I would like to be pointed to an example of how to program a shell-script
> that can do something with a file it gets through a pipe, as such:
> somehost%myconfig | myscript.sh
>
> Thanx in advance for any usefull answers you might share with me..

Check out the 'read' command in sh. Example:

#!/bin/sh

while read foo
do
        echo $foo
done


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