Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

[Bob McGowan]

Mark Clarkson wrote:

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:37 -0800
Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Mark Clarkson wrote:

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800
Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Brian wrote:

So can you explain exactly what the first < <( echo
"$teststring" ) does exactly please?

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This should explain it:

$ exec 4<>4
$ echo "this is a test" >4
$ wc /dev/fd/4
 1  4 15 /dev/fd/4

which of course is equivalent to

$ wc <(echo this is a test)

and is not a redirection!

The man page tells me that <(list) substitutes the list and it's up to
the user to choose what to do with it. I chose to redirect it, hence
the additional '< '.

$ read a b c d /dev/fd/4
1 2 3 4
bash: read: `/dev/fd/4': not a valid identifier
$ read a b c d < /dev/fd/4
$ echo  $c $d
a test



Thanks.

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Bob McGowan

I think I get it. Following through with this, regarding the error seen with 'read' and the substitution only form: 'bash: read: `/dev/fd/4': not a valid identifier', I did this, based on your setup above: Which is just another way of illustrating that you need to redirect the substitution.

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