Comments on: Reading Standard Input in a Bash Shell Script

By: firebush

firebush — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:24:45 +0000

Thanks, this was helpful.

ScottS-M — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:13:58 +0000

That’s true. I tend to be lazy and just call bash explicitly instead of using chmod and adding #!/bin/bash to the first line of the script.

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:49:00 +0000

It’s unnecessary to call “bash myscript.bash”

Set your script executable:
chmod +x myscript.bash

and then run it as:
cat sourcefile.txt | ./myscript.bash