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For a reasonably small output produced by a command, we can redirect the output to temporary file, and send those temporary file to commands in loop. This can be useful when order of executed commands might matter.

The following script , for example, could do that:

#!/bin/sh

temp=$( mktemp )
cat /dev/stdin > "$temp"

for arg
do
    eval "$arg < "$temp"
done
rm "$temp"

Test run on Ubuntu 16.04 with /bin/sh as dash shell:

$ cat /etc/passwd | ./multiple_pipes.sh  'wc -l'  'grep "root"'                                                          
48
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

For a reasonably small output produced by a command, we can redirect the output to temporary file, and send those temporary file to commands in loop. This can be useful when order of executed commands might matter.

The following script , for example, could do that:

#!/bin/sh

temp=$( mktemp )
cat /dev/stdin > "$temp"

for arg
do
    eval "$arg" < "$temp"
done
rm "$temp"

Test run on Ubuntu 16.04 with /bin/sh as dash shell:

$ cat /etc/passwd | ./multiple_pipes.sh  'wc -l'  'grep "root"'                                                          
48
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

For a reasonably small output produced by a command, we can redirect the output to temporary file, and send those temporary file to commands in loop. This can be useful when order of executed commands might matter.

The following script , for example, could do that:

#!/bin/sh

temp=$( mktemp )
cat /dev/stdin > "$temp"

for arg
do
    eval "$arg < $temp"
done
rm "$temp"

Test run on Ubuntu 16.04 with /bin/sh as dash shell:

$ cat /etc/passwd | ./multiple_pipes.sh  'wc -l'  'grep "root"'                                                          
48
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

For a reasonably small output produced by a command, we can redirect the output to temporary file, and send those temporary file to commands in loop. This can be useful when order of executed commands might matter.

The following script , for example, could do that:

#!/bin/sh

temp=$( mktemp )
cat /dev/stdin > "$temp"

for arg
do
    eval "$arg < "$temp"
done
rm "$temp"

Test run on Ubuntu 16.04 with /bin/sh as dash shell:

$ cat /etc/passwd | ./multiple_pipes.sh  'wc -l'  'grep "root"'                                                          
48
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

For a reasonably small output produced by a command, we can redirect the output to temporary file, and send those temporary file to commands in loop. This can be useful when order of executed commands might matter.

The following script , for example, could do that:

#!/bin/sh

temp=$( mktemp )
cat /dev/stdin > "$temp"

for arg
do
    eval "$arg < "$temp"
done
rm "$temp"

Test run on Ubuntu 16.04 with /bin/sh as dash shell:

$ cat /etc/passwd | ./multiple_pipes.sh  'wc -l'  'grep "root"'                                                          
48
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

For a reasonably small output produced by a command, we can redirect the output to temporary file, and send those temporary file to commands in loop. This can be useful when order of executed commands might matter.

The following script , for example, could do that:

#!/bin/sh

temp=$( mktemp )
cat /dev/stdin > "$temp"

for arg
do
    eval "$arg < $temp"
done
rm "$temp"

Test run on Ubuntu 16.04 with /bin/sh as dash shell:

$ cat /etc/passwd | ./multiple_pipes.sh  'wc -l'  'grep "root"'                                                          
48
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash