Re: output redirection with process substitution asynchronous?

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On Dec 4, 7:46 pm, DennisW <dennistwilliam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This should be in gnu.bash rather than gnu.bash.bug

oh, you are right, it's not a bug yet

> Would this work for you?
>
> while read line; do echo "$(date): $line $((num++))"; done

ah sorry, I used the command "seq" just as an example, it could
be any other command that produces output, should have probably
written like:

$ exec 3> >(while read line; do echo "$(date): $line"; done)
$ <some command that produces some output> >&3
Friday, December  4, 2009  4:20:29 PM MET: 1
$ Friday, December  4, 2009  4:20:29 PM MET: 2
Friday, December  4, 2009  4:20:29 PM MET: 3
Friday, December  4, 2009  4:20:29 PM MET: 4

thanks,

  Peter