sys.stdin and re.search

[Erik Max Francis]

Jimmie Fulton wrote:

> # f = os.popen("tail -n+1 --follow=name | tai64nlocal | grep rblsmtpd","r")
	...
> The command I'm issuing on the command line:
> ./rblLogger.py < /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd/current | tai64nlocal |
> grep rblsmtpd

These do not do the same thing.

The first behaves like

	something | somethingElse | yetSomethingElse | ./script

but the latter behaves like

	(./script < something) | somethingElse | yetSomethingElse

Redirections (<, >) aren't intermixable with pipes (|) like that.

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