In a recent note, Thomas E. Dickey said:
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:52:32 -0400 (EDT)
>
> you mean something like
>
> ( command ) <input
>
> I hadn't thought about that. I've been burned with some shells that
> won't work properly if I redirect to an arbitrary command, and use
> 'cat' if there's a question about it. In either case, there's no
> recovery if the command contains an unbalanced parenthesis...
>
I haven't access to such a brain-dead shell to test with. But
I might expect that the parentheses might help insulate the
arbitrary command from the redirection and extinguish the burn.
-- gil
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