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Re: Design question(s), re: why use of tmp-files or named-pipes(/dev/fd/N) instead of plain pipes?

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:49:25PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >A simple example:
> >
> >diff -u <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
> ----
> 	You claim <(sort file1) is a filename?

$ ls -l <(sort .bashrc)
lr-x------ 1 wooledg wooledg 64 Oct 19 15:56 /dev/fd/63 -> pipe:[55954]

ls thinks it is.

The whole point of this construction is that it generates a thing that
can be open()ed by a program that isn't bash.  So you can drop it into
programs that require a filename argument, like diff.

Nobody ever said it's a regular file.

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Re: Design question(s), re: why use of tmp-files or named-pipes(/dev/fd/N) instead of plain pipes? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2015-10-19 15:59 -0400

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