On 10/6/14, 6:03 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Not sure how but this went off into space, sorta... > > Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 12:14:57PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >>> done <<<"$(get_net_IFnames_hwaddrs)" >> >>> Where am I using a HERE doc? >> >> <<< and << both create temporary files. > ---- > > Yeah... where?
Wherever $TMPDIR says to. If $TMPDIR doesn't name a writable directory, bash looks for various system definitions (P_tmpdir), finally defaulting to /tmp or /var/tmp. > Maybe if bash didn't create tmp files in non-standard locations, > this never would have been an issue (or just use pipes).. Please. Your assumptions about what is going on make your conclusions shaky at best. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/