bash redirection problem
Michael A Chase
mchase@ix.netcom.com
Wed Jun 19 13:36:00 GMT 2002
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:20:25 +0000 "Newman, Robin" <rbn@oundle.northants.sch.uk> 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
> What is the workaround if any to sort this to allow stdin
> to be redirected to a file?
>From the top of 'info cat':
| `cat': Concatenate and write files
| ==================================
|
| `cat' copies each FILE (`-' means standard input), or standard input
| if none are given, to standard output. Synopsis:
Have you tried 'cat >> somefilename' or 'cat - >> somefilename'?
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