Re: funsub questions

2023-12-17 Thread Zachary Santer
On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 9:29 PM Kerin Millar wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:50:48 -0500 > Zachary Santer wrote: > > Would using funsubs to capture the stdout of external commands be > > appreciably faster than using comsubs for the same? > > In the case of a script that would otherwise fork many

A feature request regarding redirection to variables

2023-12-17 Thread Luke Tidd
A very common thing I need to do when writing bash is to collect both the stdout and stderr of a command. This can be done relatively reasonably with files but it would be very attractive to be able to redirect these directly to a variable some how. cmd >@stdout 2>@stderr exit_code=$? where "stdo