bash redirection problem
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew@DeFaria.com
Wed Jun 19 10:42:00 GMT 2002
Newman, Robin wrote:
> I'm trying to get bash scripts (from the ht//dig multidig scripts) to
> work under cygwin which incorporate commands like
> cat /dev/stdin >> somefilename
> They work ok under linux, but cygwin (latest version installed
> yesterday) returns
> cat: /dev/stdin: no such file or directory
> there isn't a /dev directory as in linux
/dev is a psuedo directory. There are elements under it. You just have
know they right name! For example, try ls -l /dev/conin or ls -l
/dev/clipboard.
> What is the workaround if any to sort this to allow stdin to be
> redirected to a file?
Personally I would simply use "cat >> somefilename". That should work
for both Cygwin and Linux.
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