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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:16:00 -0000
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Mahmood N <nt_mahmood@yahoo.com>
Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Passing piped commands as argument to gdb
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:09:21 +0100, Mahmood N wrote:
> I have a large bz file which is piped to a program like this
>     bzcat file.bz2 |./run_prog 6
> Now I want to use gdb, however the following command fails
>     gdb --args  bzcat file.bz2 |./run_prog 6

mknod pipe p
bzcat file.bz2 >pipe &
gdb ./run_prog -ex 'run <pipe 6'


Jan