Re: [Help-bash] Proposed usage of $-

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:07:54AM +0100, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
> The particular script, which brought this all up for me, as it won't 
> work in posix mode, quits on error on process substitution:
> 
> line 199: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
> line 199: `   done < <(some_command_generating_a_list)'

Well, obviously you can't use non-POSIX features in "bash -posix".

arc3:~$ bash -c 'cat < <(echo hi)'
hi
arc3:~$ bash -posix -c 'cat < <(echo hi)'
bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
bash: -c: line 0: `cat < <(echo hi)'