How to use gdb with input redirection?

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user53670 picture user53670 · Jan 21, 2011 · Viewed 51.2k times · Source

In the Terminal, I have:

myapp < myfileinput

But if I want to use gdb,

gdb myapp < myfileinput

It didn't run correctly.

How to use gdb here?

Answer

Abhishek picture Abhishek · Nov 8, 2012 
~$ gdb <executable>

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Reading symbols from /home/abhishek/maxtest...done.

(gdb) run < input.txt

This is doing the trick for me. Wondering if this was what you were looking for.

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