Re: Stacking arguments in a Unix executable!

["Brian L. Sellden" <Brian@henge.com>]

Ariel,
  I believe the question was - "how do you feed predefined 
values into a script or program at run-time without typing them 
in at run-time?"
  The way I would do this is - assuming the program is 
called myscript, and assuming it asks for a single numeric value
at every invokation, and assuming that the value will be 25 
every time - do this:

# run-myscript
#!/usr/bin/sh
echo "25" | myscript

Then just run "run-myscript" from the command line.  Couldn't be 
simpler.  You could also use environmental variables, etc.

Brian.
>>>>> "Ariel" == Ariel Mazzarelli <mazzare@primenet.com> writes:

  >> Hi Jerry,
  >> 
  >> I don't know if this is the 'official' way to do it, but you can
  >> do it this way:
  >> 
  >> $ echo "25" | <shell-script>

  Ariel> Hmmm, I'm not sure that's what Jerry wanted.

  Ariel> $ echo "25" 25 $ echo "25" | echo

  Ariel> $ echo < echo "25" 25 $ echo "25" > echo $

  Ariel> Ariel
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