Stephen Samuel <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Christoph Pleger wrote: >> Hello, >> In my initialization scripts for hotplug (written for bash) the >> following command is used to redirect output which normally goes to >> stderr to the system logger: >> "exec 2> >(logger -t $0[$$])" > I don't remember this syntax as legal. That's the process substitution feature of bash, quite handy when you want to get an fd connected to a pipe. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html