Supplying configuration file via bash

[Etan Kissling]

That's awesome! Many thanks!


> On 20 Sep 2016, at 11:23, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> wrote:
> 
> On 20 September 2016 at 11:07, Etan Kissling <kissling at oberon.ch> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> I'd like to start hostapd without a stored configuration file from a script.
>> Is it possible to do that, e.g. with config as a heredoc, similar to the following snippet?
> 
> You can try on bash4:
> 
> hostapd <(cat <<EOF
> // config goes here
> EOF
> )
> 
> On rc shell:
> 
> hostapd <{cat <<EOF
> // config goes here
> EOF
> )
> 
> Generally on linux:
> 
> hostapd /dev/stdin <<EOF
> // config goes here
> EOF
> 
> /dev/stdin points to /proc/self/fd/0 meaning you can use these paths
> interchangeably.
> 
> 
> Michał