[mc] mcview from stdin?

Jörg Thümmler listen at vordruckleitverlag.de
Fri Feb 16 06:26:12 UTC 2024


Am 15.02.24 um 17:02 schrieb Stefan Krusche via mc:
> Am Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2024 schrieb skejg via mc:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Does `mcview` support opening stdin? I found this old ticket:
>> https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/2370 mentioning some actual
>> commits but `cat myfile | mcview` still doesn't seem to work for me?
> 
> Yo can do:
> 
> mcview myfile
> 
> HTH
> Stefan

funny ;-)

question was, whether stdin is supported, "cat myfile  | mcview" was 
just an example to have a pipe to stdin.

You can say

   echo "somthing to pipe" | mcview

as well...

-- 
cu

jth



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