> > I left a comment on the web page with the interview.? Both Ward and > Markus (the interviewer) responded.? > > Ward stated: > ? > Michael -- I should have said <( ... ) as described in this post: > > > > http://crashingdaily.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/diff-two-stdout-streams/ > > > > Ha! Much as I had suspected and why I asked to see it's use in the larger context as it was indeed a "syntax reference" not an actual command, "&( ... )" that someone saw being used in functional script.
The <( ... ) syntax creates a temporary named pipe which makes the stdout of thesort | tr commands look and behave like a file, allowing diff to operate on the expected type of input. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
