Re: multiple inputs / outputs through descriptors

[Bob Proulx]

address@hidden wrote:
>   But how would I make the open FDs available to a 
> sub-shell? e.g. how would I say :
>  e.g. this gives me syntax error :
>   ( read 63>&1 ; read 62>&1 ) <(ls) <(ls -L)

If you use 'echo' to see what is happening things will be more clear.

  echo <(ls) <(ls -l)
  /dev/fd/63 /dev/fd/62

The <(command) portions are being replaced by filenames.  So your
command looks like this.  If you try this you will get the same syntax
error.

  ( read 63>&1 ; read 62>&1 ) /dev/fd/63 /dev/fd/62

The magic of <(command) is that it is all replaced by filenames and
commands which are run under that only see filenames.  They don't know
that another set of processes and pipes were opened around them.  They
don't need to know that.

If you are just wanting to concatenate the output of several commands
as it seems then just use cat.

  cat <(ls) <(ls -l)

Bob