Re: question and/or enhancement request

2007-07-29 Thread Dave Rutherford
On 7/29/07, Erick Wodarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the following is hard (or impossible?) using bash. I want to > create a shell script that will ... This may be possible, depending on exactly what you need, but you'd probably be better off trying `expect'. #!/bin/bash mknod pipe_t

question and/or enhancement request

2007-07-29 Thread Erick Wodarz
Hi, I think the following is hard (or impossible?) using bash. I want to create a shell script that will ... 1. Execute a program asynchronously, and return it's PID. 2. Have the program read stdin from the shell's current stdout (or provide a facility for that). 3. Have the program read wri