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- Submitted-by: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
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- In article <14102@cs.utexas.edu> addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) writes:
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- >> join <(prog1) <(prog2) > joined-output-of-progs-1-and-2
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- >Anyway, the above wouldn't work with a straight /dev/fd as has been talked about
- >here recently. Why ? The trouble is that if /dev/fd contains files with
- >names "0", "1", ... "19", the programs prog1 & prog2 would both have a file
- >/dev/fd/1 as their stdout, join would see another /dev/fd/1.
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- That's not how you do it. Prog1 and prog2 just output to their standard
- outputs, as they always do, and the shell sets up pipes from prog1 and prog2
- to join. The /dev/fd names for these pipes, as seen by join, are then passed
- as argv[] parameters to join, to make it read them. Prog1 and prog2 never
- see them.
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