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What is the easiest way to read binary (non-formated) data from std::cin into either a string or a stringstream ? std::cin is not opened with ios_binary. If you must use cin, then you need to reopen it, which isn't part of the standard. Some ideas here: http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.programmer/How-can-I-reopen-std-cin-and-std-cout-in-binary-mode . Once it's binary, you can use cin.read() to read bytes. If you know that in your system, there is no difference between text and binary (and you don't need to be portable), then you can just use read without worrying. For windows, you can use the

How can you make SSH read the password from stdin, which it doesn't do by default? You can't with most SSH clients. You can work around it with by using SSH API's, like Paramiko for Python. Be careful not to overrule all security policies. based on this post you can do: Create a command which open a ssh session using SSH_ASKPASS (seek SSH_ASKPASS on man ssh ) $ cat > ssh_session <<EOF export SSH_ASKPASS="/path/to/script_returning_pass" setsid ssh "your_user"@"your_host" EOF NOTE: To avoid ssh to try to ask on tty we use setsid Create a script which returns your password (note echo "echo ) $

I want to deal with the command line input in Ruby: > cat input.txt | myprog.rb > myprog.rb < input.txt > myprog.rb arg1 arg2 arg3 ... What is the best way to do it? In particular I want to deal with blank STDIN, and I hope for an elegant solution. #!/usr/bin/env ruby STDIN.read.split("\n").each do |a| puts a end ARGV.each do |b| puts b end Jonke Following are some things I found in my collection of obscure Ruby. So, in Ruby, a simple no-bells implementation of the Unix command cat would be: #!/usr/bin/env ruby puts ARGF.read ARGF is your friend when it comes to input; it is a virtual file