On 12/20/2012 04:51 PM, GNU bug Tracking System wrote:
Your bug report
#13243: [PATCH] enhancement: modify md5sum to allow piping
which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.
The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 13...@debbugs.gnu.org.
Wow! It was worth writing a patch just to discover the >(list) and
<(list) constructs. I knew about tee, but I had no idea about this,
thanks!! I've even known how to do this across programs written in C, I
just didn't know there was a bash mechanism for it. So I guess bash
substitutes the parameter name with the /dev/fd<n> or some such for the
named pipe it creates? I'll have to read up on it more.
Well there's still some goodies that can be filtered out, like the copy
& paste removal. But don't bother sifting through the patches I
submitted for that, I'll make a new patch set for it (gnulib).
Daniel
