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Re: Please advise on programming tactics/strategy


From: Matthew Woehlke
Subject: Re: Please advise on programming tactics/strategy
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:34:01 -0600
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cga2000 wrote:
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:57:44PM EST, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
You might want to look at bash's command redirection instead.

?

Sorry, the "correct" term (at least, what the manpage uses :-) ) is "process substitution". Conceptually, it's a bit like writing pipes backwards. For example, 'read l < <(netstat | sed -n 5p)' stores the fifth line of the output from 'netstat' in the variable 'l'.

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Matthew
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