[solved]reading from stdin

system72 · 2025-12-06 10:31:23

hi im working on a script that uploads stuff to my site, i was wondering how i could read from stdin e.g.:

wl-copy "aa"
wl-paste | script

here is my script https://git.system72.dev/dotfiles/tree/.local/bin/store

be patient with me pls i am a shell scripting n00b

Last edited by system72 (2025-12-06 11:31:37)

mpan · 2025-12-06 10:41:22

For example by marking stdin input with the lack of filename argument or it being set to ‘-’ (a single dash). This is a pretty common way.

system72 · 2025-12-06 10:44:17

mpan wrote:

For example by marking stdin input with the lack of filename argument or it being set to ‘-’ (a single dash). This is a pretty common way.

can you show me an example of how it would be implemented

mpan · 2025-12-06 11:16:02

Implementing which part is a problem? You already know `if`.

system72 · 2025-12-06 11:17:35

idk how to read from stdin

mpan · 2025-12-06 11:28:26

`cat` without arguments reads from stdin. You may redirect output to to a file:

cat >file

Then you can rsync the file to the server.

One can’t directly rsync from stdin. The tool is designed to work with actual files in storage. It’s possible to coerce rsync into accepting data from stdin, but AFAIK there is no way to reliably make it not getting grumpy about that.

system72 · 2025-12-06 11:31:19

ok ty this seems to work..

Arch Linux

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