How to pass the value of a variable to the standard input of a command?

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Passing a value to standard input in Bash is as simple as:

your-command <<< "$your_variable"

Always make sure you put quotes around variable expressions!

Be cautious, that this will probably work only in bash and will not work in sh.

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