Send string to stdin

Question

Is there a way to effectively do this in bash:

/my/bash/script < echo \'This string will be sent to stdin.\'

I\'m aware that I could pip

Answer 1

aliases can and can't process piped stdin...

Here we create 3 lines of output

$ echo -e "line 1\nline 2\nline 3"
line 1
line 2
line 3

We then pipe the output to stdin of the sed command to put them all on one line

$ echo -e "line 1\nline 2\nline 3" |  sed -e ":a;N;\$!ba ;s?\n? ?g"
line 1 line 2 line 3

If we define an alias of the same sed command

$ alias oline='sed -e ":a;N;\$!ba ;s?\n? ?g"'

We can pipe the output to the stdin of the alias and it behaves exactly the same

$ echo -e "line 1\nline 2\nline 3" |  oline
line 1 line 2 line 3

The problem arises when we try to define the alias as a function

$ alias oline='function _oline(){ sed -e ":a;N;\$!ba ;s?\n? ?g";}_oline'

Defining the alias as a funstion breaks the pipe

$ echo -e "line 1\nline 2\nline 3" |  oline
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