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Thanks. That seems to allow me to use redirects and does not interfere if there is not.

. . . } elsif ($#filenames < 0 && ! -t STDIN) { unshift(@filenames, '/dev/stdin') } . . .

It is done at the end of all the checking of sources, right before the data gets read.

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