On Dec 4, 7:46 pm, DennisW <dennistwilliam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This should be in gnu.bash rather than gnu.bash.bug
oh, you are right, it's not a bug yet > Would this work for you? > > while read line; do echo "$(date): $line $((num++))"; done ah sorry, I used the command "seq" just as an example, it could be any other command that produces output, should have probably written like: $ exec 3> >(while read line; do echo "$(date): $line"; done) $ <some command that produces some output> >&3 Friday, December 4, 2009 4:20:29 PM MET: 1 $ Friday, December 4, 2009 4:20:29 PM MET: 2 Friday, December 4, 2009 4:20:29 PM MET: 3 Friday, December 4, 2009 4:20:29 PM MET: 4 thanks, Peter
