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How can I keep reading from a pipe even after the pipe is closed?

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I've got a ksh script that calls: The input has been redirected (not shown) so that it reads input from a pipe. The problem is that when the writer to the pipe closes, read returns false and exits the loop. I want it to keep reading after the pipe is closed (the writing process may re-start from ti…

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while read LINE do...

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A pipe is created in the kernel as a communication method between two processes. It's usually a parent/child relationship. If a process exits, there is no pipe. There is no way to attach another process to the other end of the pipe in the kernel. Th…

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