On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This program uses the temporary fifo management system that I built > for zargs to provide generic process substitution for arguments to a > sub-command. > > This program has some advantages over the process substitution built > into some shells (bash, zsh, ksh, ???): > > 1. It doesn't rely on having a shell that supports built-in process > substitution. > 2. By using descriptively named temporary fifos it allows programs > that include filenames in output or diagnostic messages to provide > more useful information than with '/dev/fd/*' inputs. > 3. It supports `--files0-from=F' style argument passing, as well. >
Hi, I'd like to point out that this is also true of `xargs' invocation. $ echo "<ls" | xargs psub wc works, whereas: $ echo "<(ls)" | xargs wc of course, doesn't. Thanks, Bo _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
