"Dr. Werner Fink" <wer...@suse.de> writes: > a=$((/bin/cat|wc -l) <<EOF > a > b > EOF > )
Useless subshell. a=$({ /bin/cat | wc -l; } <<EOF a b EOF ) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."