Re: execline, s6-portable-utils: print a file to stdout

From: Profpatsch <mail_at_profpatsch.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:30:51 +0200

Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware_at_skarnet.org> writes:

>>I haven’t found a way to print a file to stdout with either
>>execline nor s6-portable-utils. The `s6-cat` utility only
>>echoes stuff that is already coming from stdin,
>>and unlike the shell, execline doesn’t have `<`.
>
> https://skarnet.org/software/execline/redirfd.html
>
> "redirfd -r 0 $file s6-cat" will print $file to stdout.

oooh, that’s a powerful command. Dunno how I missed that,
I think I was too focused on finding something less general.

I think I might start writing a FAQ for these things.

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