With memory being abundant and filesystem access expensive, I want to put stdout and stderr of a command into variables (without needing to write to a file):
output=$($command 2>>>errors) Or: $command >>>output 2>>>errors Obviously this gives a syntax error now, as this intuitive idea isn't implemented (yet). Any chance for a fix, to introduce an operator >>> that functions as a "reverse here-document" that stores the content of a file stream into a variable? I think that would be very useful extension, easy to comprehend in the light of current syntax, and not clashing with anything existing as far as I can see. Peter
