Subject: Re: bash redirection problem
From: Andrew DeFaria <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:32:37 -0700
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin

Newman, Robin wrote:

> I'm trying to get bash scripts (from the ht//dig multidig scripts) to 
> work under cygwin which incorporate commands like
> cat /dev/stdin >> somefilename
> They work ok under linux, but cygwin (latest version installed 
> yesterday) returns
> cat: /dev/stdin: no such file or directory
> there isn't a /dev directory as in linux

/dev is a psuedo directory. There are elements under it. You just have 
know they right name! For example, try ls -l /dev/conin or ls -l 
/dev/clipboard.

> What is the workaround if any to sort this to allow stdin to be 
> redirected to a file?

Personally I would simply use "cat >> somefilename". That should work 
for both Cygwin and Linux.

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