On Oct 12, 2012, at 1:44 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:m.roth@xxxxxxxxx>> <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:m.roth@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: So, my manager, in zsh, can do the following: scp -i =(ssh -qnx <snip> cat /etc/ks/ks_dsa) localfile server:/whereitgoes Does anyone have any ideas what the syntax in bash is? I've been playing with this for hours. My manager says that zsh treats the cat'd key as a file, while if you try it with bash, replacing the = with <, it asks for the passphrase of what must be a socket. mark The document http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Intro/intro_7.html has some description about =(…) Not a zsh user myself Ton Schreiner _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos