On 2013-11-21 13:42, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I have one more issue when working with stdin in fish. Is it possible to
> (easily) read from stdin/pipe more than one line?
>
> I would like to be able to do:
> cat myfile | myscript
> (where in myscript a content of a file is read and pass (for example) to
> a clipboard)
>
> In bash I have seen a weird construction "input="$(< /dev/stdin)". In
> fish I would probably `read` a line by line in a loop and concatenate
> the content of a variable, but maybe there is a simpler way?

As a summary. I ended with calling read in a loop. I reported the issue 
#1147 and later got know about #159 which applies to my case.

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1147
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/159

Marcin



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