Ian wrote:
> The manual suggests I could move and close file descriptors with
>
> [n]>&digit-
>
> but I would need the equivalent of
>
> command1 >&>(...)-
>
> Digit might very well mean (just a) digit but here the process
> substitution, of course, is replaced with /dev/fd/63, say, certainly
> not a digit.
What about something like this (highly non-portable):
run_with_tee()
{
_run_with_tee >(tee out) "$@"
}
_run_with_tee()
{
local fdpipeout=${1#/proc/self/fd/}; shift
# Redirect+close not to leak the extra pipe FD
>&$fdpipeout- "$@"
}
run_with_tee someCommand
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> When the shortcuts are too short, you need to fall back to the original
> tools. In this case, >() is really just a shortcut for "create a FIFO,
> and open it". Doing so by hand should give you the manual control you
> need. At the very least, you can tell bash which FD number to use when
> you open the FIFO.
Yeah, but then you have the hassle to cleanup/delete the FIFO by yourself.
And leave tons of them behind in case of errors.
