[plug] Can this be done?

[Richard Meyer]

Thanks to all who replied - I've passed your suggestions on and am
awaiting acknowledgement.

Thanks again
Richard.

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 21:41 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Guys, if these are tape devices, then "cat" may not be enough.
> 
> You may need to use dd, based on the block size. You may need to do
> tape related commands, etc, etc.
> 
> So, something like this may work:
> 
> (
>   <rewind tape0> ; dd if=/dev/tape0 bs=<blocksize> ;
>   <rewind tape1> ; dd if=/dev/tape1 bs=<blocksize> ;
> ) | /path/to/program
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009, Russell Steicke wrote:
> > Here's another way to do it, all inside one shell script, to avoid
> > having an external process waiting for you:
> > 
> > mkfifo allfiles
> > # Make all the files available on the fifo
> > cat file? > allfiles &
> > # Read all the data from the fifo
> > cat allfiles
> > 
> > Read-once-only, of course.  Writing is not possible like this.  But
> > given that it's called INPUT, that may not be a problem.  Creating a
> > unique name instead of allfiles (to prevent multiple instances getting
> > in each others' way) is left as an exercise for the reader.  :)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Richard Meyer
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