"Brian J. Murrell" <br...@interlinx.bc.ca> writes: > But this is where (simplified) my example using cat went sideways. :-( > In my real world use, the first cat is actually mplayer and doesn't have > the option of writing to stdout instead of a named file for this > particular use of it.
Perhaps you can use /dev/stdout instead. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."