Antonio Macchi wrote:
> $ hd <(echo -en \\0{0..3}{0..7}{0..7})
> 
> 
> it breaks the console.

This was a bug in bash-3.2; fixed in bash-4.0.  You hit it when you
get close to exceeding the max number of open file descriptors using
the /dev/fd version of process substitution.

Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/


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