[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) writes: > The redirection applied to "read" in those examples would be applied > to your while loop instead. For example: > > while ...; do var=...; done <<EOT > $(generate-input-for-while) > EOT > use "$var"
This has the disadvantage that generator and consumer no longer run concurrently. Process substitution does not have this problem. while ...; do var=...; done < <( generate-input-for-while ) use "$var" Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
