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Getting back to "stdin" after redirecting a file to a particular program

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I need to achieve a particular effect using 's redirection facilities. I know that I can redirect a file to some program's standard input: The thing is, I'd like to know can I regain control of this program's input after the file content's have been passed to it. In other words, I'd like to run a cā€¦

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[user@host]$ application < file.txt

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Fix for: Getting back to "stdin" after redirecting a file to a particular program

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can do this easily enough. Note that this won't fool the application into thinking that it's actually connected to a terminal; you'll need for that.

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