🚀 go-pugleaf

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
--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?

In article <4753@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
bobd@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob Debula) writes that when doing
	s|fnews
inside rn, the article is on stdin, and later he needs to read the keyboard.

Open up /dev/tty:
	cat >/tmp/article$$
	trap "exec rm -f /tmp/article" 0 1 2 3 15
	exec </dev/tty
	....
-- 
Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.
Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.