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Re: [Help-bash] Bash syntax for using here-doc's or variables as files i


From: Jesse Hathaway
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Bash syntax for using here-doc's or variables as files in process substitution
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:27:24 -0500

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 3:00 PM, João Eiras <address@hidden> wrote:
> You will always need to pass some sort of file descriptor to your
> sub-process, so you can do that implicitly with some process
> substitution or explicitly with exec while avoiding an extra process.

right, I thought it might be nice to have syntax which allows an
implicit passing, perhaps something like:

cat <(<<<"bubbles")
cat <(<<'EOF'
bubbles
EOF
)

This syntax is apparently supported by zsh in my testing, which I did
not realize
until now.



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