Re: Comments on bash 5.2's undocumented <(<file) and weird >(<file)

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/5/24 2:38 PM, Emanuele Torre wrote:
> Bash 5.2 apparently added  <(< file)  that expand to the path to a fifo
> (openable only for read on BSD) to which the contents of file are
> written to, without documenting it.
It's a side effect of making the internal implementations of command and
process substitution cleaner and more consistent. Don't expect it to
become documented or necessarily even stick around.

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