On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Ángel <an...@16bits.net> wrote:
> bash converts < <( dd_need_io "$if" "$of" ...) into a read > from /dev/fd/62 in order to make readarray read file descriptor 62. > > Given that this the host OS doesn't provide them, the first thing I > would verify would be: is cygwin, as setup on that system, providing > such descriptors? > > As a simple test, you can do: > wc -l <(cat /etc/passwd) > > (change /etc/passwd to another file if that's not available) > > Regards > > > Cygwin implements mkfifo, which bash will use in place of /dev/fd
