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[Help-bash] Is there a way to peek at the stdin buffer in bash?


From: Peng Yu
Subject: [Help-bash] Is there a way to peek at the stdin buffer in bash?
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 08:49:45 -0600

Hi, C has ungetc(). Is there a way to to peek stdin buffer in bash?
(This can be useful if I want to do something depending on the first
initial lines, otherwise I will need to write stdin to file or use
tee, either of which are as efficient as peeking the stdin buffer)
Thanks.

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Regards,
Peng



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