On 11/12/18 10:48 AM, Didou Serge wrote: > Ok, in this case, this should not work either: > > mapfile -C xx -c 1 UU < <( echo -e "Premiere ligne" A{1..45} "\nDeuxieme > ligne" B{1..45} "\nTroisieme ligne" C{1..45}) > > But, this form work fine.
Because the read function underlying mapfile notes that the file descriptor is not seekable and reads only a single line at a time rather than a full buffer of data. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/