Re: piping question

[Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 4 October 2014 17:50, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> On Oct 3,  4:42pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>> }
>>> } echo hi there | { xterm -e 'most <& 7' 7< <(cat) }
>>>
>>> I avoided that because I was concerned that some terminal emulators
>>> would close all the descriptors above 2 when launching the command.
>>
>> Unfortunately, all these hacks don't work with urxvt.  If anyone has an
>> idea how to do it, I'd like to see.
>
> It works fine for me, the only difference is that it doesn't
> automatically invoke the shell for you if you pass something that
> isn't an array to pass to execv;
> echo hi there | { urxvt -e sh -c 'most <& 7' 7< <(cat) }

You are right!  I'm down to

xless() {
  {
    exec {stdin}<&0
    exec urxvt -e sh -c "less ${(qq)@} <&$stdin"
  } &!
}

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