Re: process substitution

2009-10-15 Thread Marc Herbert
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Ralf Goertz is it possible to have a process substitution with both input and output redirection? So far I use the following work-around cat parentprocess.sh: #!/bin/bash mkfifo fifo 2/dev/null exec 5 (./subprocess.sh fifo) exec 6 (cat fifo) I think

Re: process substitution

2009-10-15 Thread Ralf Goertz
Marc Herbert wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Ralf Goertz is it possible to have a process substitution with both input and output redirection? So far I use the following work-around cat parentprocess.sh: #!/bin/bash mkfifo fifo 2/dev/null exec 5 (./subprocess.sh fifo) exec 6

Oddities when tab-completing filenames containing backticks

2009-10-15 Thread bash-bugs
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale'

Re: wait with trap SIGCHLD: different behaviour in 3.2 and 4.0

2009-10-15 Thread Chet Ramey
Cool. Is there any hint/doc/faq/how-to implement old behaviour, i.e. wait until all children of current bash process will exit? I imagine a loop on wait until it returns because there are no unwaited-for children. You can detect the interrupted exit status and behave accordingly. I'll

Building bash-4.0 on Snow Leopard

2009-10-15 Thread Chet Ramey
Use the attached patch and rebuild configure using `autoconf'. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ ***