On Thursday, October 25, 2012 08:12:07 PM Lionel Cons wrote: > On 25 October 2012 13:50, Dan Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > > In ksh93v there's now a syntax to get readlink functionality out of tilde > > expansion. > > > > $ ( { echo ~{x}; } <<<'' {x}<&0 <&2 ) > > /proc/32185/fd/13 > > > > This is an awesome feature... it would be a shame to require an eval here. > > This isn't readlink support. It's a a smart solution to allow child > processes to access the shell's inherited file descriptors. We already > heavily rely on this feature, both for IPC and to shorten very long > paths to speed processing up. > > Lionel
Ah I see. It is a nice idea. :) -- Dan Douglas _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
