Re: output redirection with process substitution asynchronous?

[pjodrr]

On Dec 8, 10:55 am, Marc Herbert <Marc.Herb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> DennisW wrote :
>
> > Would you care to comment on the coproc command in Bash 4?
>
> I wish I could, but I know nothing about it. Anyone else?

yeah, I tried that:

prefix_timestamp() {
    while read line; do
        echo "$(date): $line"
    done
}

coproc prefix_timestamp
seq 10>&${COPROC[1]}
eval "exec ${COPROC[1]}>&-"
cat <&${COPROC[0]}
wait $COPROC_PID

but am not sure if I like that construct better.

  Peter