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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/