What I want to do is the following:
- read in multiple line input from
stdin
into variableA
- make various operations on
A
- pipe
A
without loosing delimiter symbols (\n
,\r
,\t
,etc) to another command
The current problem is that, I can't read it in with read
command, because it stops reading at newline.
I can read stdin with cat
, like this:
my_var=`cat /dev/stdin`
, but then I don't know how to print it. So that the newline, tab, and other delimiters are still there.
My sample script looks like this:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
A=`cat /dev/stdin`
if [ ${#A} -eq 0 ]; then
exit 0
else
cat ${A} | /usr/local/sbin/nextcommand
fi