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Re: more on Re: bash process substitution "<(list)" [spot the difference]


B. K. Oxley (binkley) wrote:
> I am exploring how process substitution works on Cygwin.  I have scripts
> which run fine on Linux but not on Windows XP.
> 
> Why does one of these scripts produce an error and the other does not?
> 
> Script #1:
> 
> $ cat a
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> function f()
> {
>    echo "$1"
>    cat "$1"
> }
> 
> f <(echo OK)
> 
> $ ./a
> /proc/self/fd/63
> OK
> 
> Script #2:
> 
> $ cat b
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> function f()
> {
>    ls -l "$1"
>    cat "$1"
> }
> 
> f <(echo OK)
> 
> $ ./b
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 luser None 0 May 29 15:49 /proc/self/fd/63 -> pipe:[1728]
> cat: /proc/self/fd/63: No such file or directory

With the exception of a slight bit of file name conversion, I get the same
result as you do with Cygwin when I run on Linux (FC4):

# /tmp/a
/dev/fd/63
OK

#  /tmp/b
lr-x------  1 lhall lhall 64 May 29 23:26 /dev/fd/63 -> pipe:[916212]
cat: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory

This is using your scripts verbatim.

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