Pipe output to bash function

Question

I have as simple function in a bash script and I would like to pipe stdout to it as an input.

jc_hms(){
  printf \"$1\"
}

I\'d like to use

Answer 1

You can't pipe stuff directly to a bash function like that, however you can use read to pull it in instead:

jc_hms() {
  while read -r data; do
      printf "%s" "$data"
  done
}

should be what you want