Re: Sub shell mit pipes

[Paul Jarc]

Enrique Perez-Terron <enrio@online.no> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 21:29, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> You can do that now, but it's spelled differently:
>> exec < <(commands_1) > >(commands_2)
>
> That is good. However, the docs says the process substitution is
> supported only on systems that support named pipes or the /dev/fd method
> of naming open files.

In the case of redirections, there's no reason in principle why
process substitution couldn't be available anywhere.  That could be
added without breaking anything, though I don't know how messy the
code might be.  It might be easier with new syntax.


paul