Re: input redirect from a variable

[Dave Yost <Dave@xxxxxxxx>]

At 2:21 PM +0000 2005-09-23, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>On Sep 23,  6:14am, Dave Yost wrote:
>} Subject: Re: input redirect from a variable
>}
>} <(foo) and =(foo) should be mentioned in the REDIRECTION section,
>
>But they *aren't* redirections.
>
>Redirection implies changing a file descriptor.  <(foo) and =(foo)
>create file name strings and substitute them into the command line.

Yes, you're right, now that I think of it.  But they should still be mentioned under redirections with a pointer to where to find them discussed.  (The use of "<" is a little confusing, too.)  Any shell user knows about redirection, but then when you imagine this new facility you want (as I did), you don't have a name for it, so redirection is the first place you look.

Dave