On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:11 +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> On Monday 23 March 2009 09:22:06 Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> >
> >    newins - baz <<<$'# a short\n# file'
> 
> Why can't you use "newins /dev/stdin foo" that it works out of the box?

Nope, /dev/stdin isn't portable.

While Linux and Solaris have it, AIX and HP-UX do not
provide /dev/stdin. Unsure about Interix and MacOSX.

Using '-' sounds familiar for me too.

/haubi/