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Re: non-blocking stdin from bash

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: non-blocking stdin from bash
Date 2018-08-13 15:00 +0200
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 06:08:34PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> What's the best way to grab anything that's in stdin into a variable
> inside a bash script, but won't block if stdin is null?

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 01:57:09PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Interesting.  I'm using it via a cron script like so:
> 
> * * * * *  grep "unusual" /opt/logs/* | /opt/notify.sh `hostname`;

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 06:45:23PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> That was just an example of what I'm doing.  In reality logtail's in
> there, but it made the example line too long.

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/064

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non-blocking stdin from bash Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2018-08-12 00:10 +0200
  Re: non-blocking stdin from bash <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-12 00:50 +0200
    Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2018-08-12 07:30 +0200
      Re: non-blocking stdin from bash <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-12 10:40 +0200
        Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2018-08-12 18:40 +0200
          Re: non-blocking stdin from bash <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-12 19:50 +0200
            Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2018-08-12 20:00 +0200
              Re: non-blocking stdin from bash <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-12 22:00 +0200
              Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-08-13 00:20 +0200
                Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2018-08-13 00:50 +0200
                Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-13 15:00 +0200
                Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2018-08-13 16:40 +0200
                Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-13 16:50 +0200
                Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2018-08-13 17:00 +0200
                Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-08-13 17:10 +0200
                Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-13 17:10 +0200
                Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-08-13 17:30 +0200
                Re: non-blocking stdin from bash Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-08-14 08:10 +0200

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