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On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:46:28AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> OK - i guess that's the same for pipes as for files then.
> Thanks!

I hope I'm not stating the over-obvious, but here goes.
If you use a fifo, it works as you'd expect:

$ cat blah
two
$ mkfifo ./fifo
$ cat - blah - < ./fifo

[in another shell]
$ echo "one" > ./fifo
$ echo "three" > ./fifo

Then, in the first shell, the output is
one
two
three


Regars,
Peter
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