Re: [Help-bash] Creating an anonymous pipe for later use

[Russell Lewis]

Correct, plus the limitation that you can only have one.  That's a key 
limitation for what I'm trying to do.

Russ

On 10/09/14 08:46, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 08:11:01AM -0700, Russell Lewis wrote:
> > I'm hoping for some sort of command (I'll call it "pipe" in this email)
> > which would call pipe(), and then assign the two file descriptors to
> > variables.
> This is essentially what a "coprocess" is.  The major difference is
> that you have to specify the command in advance.