On Feb 21, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Robert Connolly wrote: > For example: > patch -p1 < ../loop-AES-v3.2e-20090112.diff > works, but > patch -p1 < $(bzcat ../loop-AES-v3.2e-20090112.diff.bz2) > does not (ambiguous redirect).
The '<' character tells bash to read stdin from the file given. Your second example, $(bzcat ...), yields a text stream, not a filename, so you must use '<<<' to turn that into stdin for the patch command (unless you pipe the output using '|'). Chris Buxton Professional Services Men & Mice -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
