cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ast-users] Redirects not evaluated in the context of previous  
redirects for builtins.
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> Hi, is this difference in evaluation for builtins correctable? A practical 
> use 
> for this is to inject a quoted-delimiter herdoc into an unquoted one for 
> constructing templates. The syntax is a bit messier if the redirects have to 
> be 
> re-arranged.
> 
>  $ ksh -c 'cat <<<"foo bar baz" 3<&0 <<<"$(</dev/fd/3) bork blah blarg"; 
> whence 
> -v cat'
> bad file unit number [Bad file descriptor]
> cat is a shell builtin version of /bin/cat
> 

I will have a fix for this in the next alpha.

David Korn
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