How about

cat - myfile


"Angel Tsankov" wrote in message
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> Is there a command that appends the contents of a file to its standard
input and sends this to standard output?

"Angel Tsankov" writes:

>Is there a command that appends the contents of a file to its standard input and sends this to standard output?

No idea what you mean.
cat file1 file2 file3
will output to stdout the concatenation of file1 file2 file3 in order.
If you want that sent to program
cat file1 file2 file3|program

> How about
>
> cat - myfile

Great! Thanks!

Angel Tsankov wrote:
>
> Is there a command that appends the contents of a file to its
> standard input and sends this to standard output?

cat - filename

note spaces.

Please limit your line lengths to something under 72. 65 is good.

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At Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:15:12 +0300 "Angel Tsankov" wrote:

>
> Is there a command that appends the contents of a file to its standard input and sends this to standard output?
>

cat - somefile

Example:

ls -l | cat - ~/.login | a2ps -2

See 'man cat' for more details.


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