dev. » ipc http://coliena.com/blog some software engineers' random rants and thoughts Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:02:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Consuming pipe Inputs in Unix http://coliena.com/blog/2010/03/consuming-pipe-inputs-in-unix/ http://coliena.com/blog/2010/03/consuming-pipe-inputs-in-unix/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:19:01 +0000 niels http://coliena.com/blog/?p=258 You’d like your application to read pipe inputs, like “ls -la | myGreatApp”? That’s pretty easy:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
 
int main(void)
{
  char input[BUFSIZ];
  /* just read it ... */
  read(STDIN_FILENO, input, BUFSIZ);
  /* ... and use it */
  puts(input);
 
  return(0);
}
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