RE: Redirecting bash stdin

["Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>]

Dave wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> According to Dave on 4/21/2006 11:45 AM:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to get a mingw GUI application to pipe commands to
>>> cygwins bash by redirecting its stdin as described here
>>> <http://support.microsoft.com/?id=190351>.
>> 
>> Why not just spawn bash with command line arguments, and use the -c
>> flag to pass the commands as arguments rather than on stdin?
> 
> I'm aware of the -c flag. I may use it if I'm convinced the pipe
> won't work, but really I'm trying to avoid creating lots of "bash -l"
> instances.  

Have you tried piping into "bash -s"?  Probably won't be any different
than the other piping you've tried, but maybe it will.

- Barry
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NIAID.

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