On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 05:59:13PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:54:33PM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote: > > The '< <' syntax is bash 2.x trick, and <<< does the same job when bash > > 3.x is in use. For some unknown reason my bash 4.2.45(2)-release became > > allergic to old syntax today(?). > > I don't follow this. The syntax is <(commands), which is a process > substitution. It creates a temporary file descriptor which can be > redirected via <. It still very much works, and I don't expect this to > break any time soon. It's likely more memory efficient since there's no > need to expand the output in place -- it can just be read off of the > file descriptor. > > I think you should figure out what's wrong with your shell instead of > doing this. Sami? Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html