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Re: pipes and stdin (want keyboard back)

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 17:25
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In article <4753@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
bobd@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob Debula) writes:

| I have a script that I'm trying to use in conjunction
| with "rn".  Basically, "rn" allows you to save (with "s")
| a news article to a pipe. I thought I would be able to do
| something like:
| 
| s | fnews
| 
| Unfortunately, I want to take input from the keyboard
| later in the fnews script (I immediately cat the
| new article text to a temporary file).  My understanding
| is that the in piping to "fnews", the file descriptor (0)
| for stdin has been reassigned to the pipe.  Is there
| any relatively straight-forward way to get it back to
| the keyboard?  My apologies if this is a simple
| or much discussed problem (I haven't been able to find
| anything on it in several "UNIX guru" type books).
| Thanks for any help you may be able to give.
| 
| (By the way, I'm using the Korn shell, but I suppose
| the answer would probably apply to Bourne as well).

Use the following:

	s | cat /dev/tty - | fnews
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