Pipe to my program as a log rotator
问题 I'm trying to implement my own log rotator (create new log file whenever filesize reaches 10 MB). The part that reads the standard input and writes it to the file is this: fstream file("log.txt", ios::out | ios::app); while (std::cin >> lineInput) { file << lineInput; } But the problem is that piped data gets ruined. Tabs and new lines are always lost. So for example if my program's name is LogRotator , then the command: ls | ./LogRotator Just concatenates all the file names together, like