To: Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>
Cc: Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de>,
       linux-admin@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Redirection of STDERR
References: <20040308111349.030feea6.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de>
	<404DEAFD.8090802@bcgreen.com>
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:18:38 +0100
In-Reply-To: <404DEAFD.8090802@bcgreen.com> (Stephen Samuel's message of
 "Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:04:13 -0800")
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Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com> writes:

> Christoph Pleger wrote:
>> Hello,
>> In my initialization scripts for hotplug (written for bash) the
>> following command is used to redirect output which normally goes to
>> stderr to the system logger:
>> "exec 2> >(logger -t $0[$$])"
> I don't remember this syntax as legal.

That's the process substitution feature of bash, quite handy when you want
to get an fd connected to a pipe.

Andreas.

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