Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

> 
> "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl> writes:
> 
> > while read line; do
> > echo $line >> $TMPFILE
> > done
> 
> Any special reason for not simply doing
>   cat >> $TMPFILE

Um, yeah, it looks neater :)  I was just mindlessly copying the original
poster's script.  Anyway, you actually still have one superfluous
character there :)

cat > $TMPFILE

is enough, so that the entire  script becomes

------------------------------------------------------------------------
#! /bin/bash

TMPFILE=/tmp/mymore.$$.tmp
cat > $TMPFILE
vi $TMPFILE < /dev/tty
rm -f $TMPFILE
------------------------------------------------------------------------

HTH,
Eric

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