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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:03:44 -0500
Subject: Re: Question About Command line arguments
From: Kurt Smith <kwmsmith@gmail.com>
To: Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> How do I write my script so it picks up argument from the output of commands
> that pipe input into my script?

def main():
    import sys
    print sys.stdin.read()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

$ echo "fred" | python script.py
fred
$