Concatenation of stdin and a file??

Dave Jenks jetfuel at babbage.csus.edu
Tue May 7 15:46:39 AEST 1991


In article <1991May6.160308.19911 at uts.uni-c.dk> neulynne at uts.uni-c.dk (Mogens Lynnerup) writes:
>What he would like to do is to concatenate stdin and some file so he can do
>something like:
>			telnet <some-node> < <some-file>
>
>and when the file is exhausted telnet should continue accepting input from the
>keyboard and NOT exit due to an EOF-condition from the file.

How about:

    cat some-file /dev/tty | telnet

I did something like this, only /dev/tty was first, because I needed
to manually prime a complex piece of software.  "It worked for me."

--Dave
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