Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra})

[Chet Ramey]

Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:16:53PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:

> How does it get exanded to
> 
> echo <(cat p.main.optional) <(cat p.main,extra)
> 
> though?
> 
> If it were textual, I would expect:
> 
> echo <(cat p.main.optional) p.main,extra)

It's still a word expansion.  The parser splits the input into words
before brace expansion takes place.

> 
> And what about:
> 
> echo $(cat p.main.{optional,extra})
> 
> This resolves to
> 
> echo $(cat p.main.optional p.main.extra)
> 
> I can't see any reason why $(...) and <(...) should be treated
> differently.

Yes, that's a separate issue worth consideration.  There is already code
to treat command substitution specially and defer expansion to the
subshell.  It might be a good idea to treat process substitution the same
way.

Chet


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