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The withstdinas program

withstdinas reads the entirety of its standard input in an environment variable, and runs another program with that additional environment variable.

Interface

In an execlineb script:

     withstdinas [ -i | -I | -D default ] [ -N | -n ] [ -E | -e ] variable prog...

Options

The other options tell withstdinas what to do if its input is not suitable as the contents of an environment variable, i.e. it contains a null character:

Notes