[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But how would I make the open FDs available to a > sub-shell? e.g. how would I say : > e.g. this gives me syntax error : > ( read 63>&1 ; read 62>&1 ) <(ls) <(ls -L)
If you use 'echo' to see what is happening things will be more clear. echo <(ls) <(ls -l) /dev/fd/63 /dev/fd/62 The <(command) portions are being replaced by filenames. So your command looks like this. If you try this you will get the same syntax error. ( read 63>&1 ; read 62>&1 ) /dev/fd/63 /dev/fd/62 The magic of <(command) is that it is all replaced by filenames and commands which are run under that only see filenames. They don't know that another set of processes and pipes were opened around them. They don't need to know that. If you are just wanting to concatenate the output of several commands as it seems then just use cat. cat <(ls) <(ls -l) Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
