On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:38:20AM +0100, Jan Schampera wrote: > Lennart Schultz wrote: > > cat file|while read line > > do > > done
> How to do it instead? > http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/syntax/expansion/proc_subst In this case, he doesn't need a process substitution -- he's just reading from a file. while read line; do ... done < file is all that's required. (Yes, the process substitution will be helpful in some of the more demanding problems.)