2015-07-02 04:27:35 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
[...]
$(file) does spawn a new process, it's just that bash doesn't
execute /bin/cat in that process, it does the reading (from
file) and writing (to the pipe) by itself (and the parent reads
from the other end of the pipe to make-up the
Hi list.
Want to read whole stdin into variable.
Don't want to spawn new processes (cat).
Don't want to reopen existing fd 0
First thing I tried: $(0)
It silently returns an empty string.
From bash manual:
The command substitution $(cat file) can be replaced by the equivalent but
faster $(
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 10:19:10PM +0300, Ilya Basin wrote:
Hi list.
Want to read whole stdin into variable.
Don't want to spawn new processes (cat).
Don't want to reopen existing fd 0
First thing I tried: $(0)
It silently returns an empty string.
This type of query is preferably asked
2015-07-01 22:19:10 +0300, Ilya Basin:
Hi list.
Want to read whole stdin into variable.
Don't want to spawn new processes (cat).
[...]
Note that
$(file) does spawn a new process, it's just that bash doesn't
execute /bin/cat in that process, it does the reading (from
file) and writing (to
On 01/07/15 22:48, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
2015-07-01 22:19:10 +0300, Ilya Basin:
Hi list.
Want to read whole stdin into variable.
Don't want to spawn new processes (cat).
[...]
Note that
$(file) does spawn a new process, it's just that bash doesn't
execute /bin/cat in that process,
