Re: [Help-bash] populating an array with piped output in a loop

[Clark J. Wang]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:28, Dallas Clement <address@hidden> wrote:

Thanks guys.  That worked like a champ!   How does this process
substitution work?  I presume it writes the output of the pipe
commands to a fifo and this syntax causes the read loop to read from
the fifo.

From the bash manual:

   Process Substitution
       Process substitution is supported on systems that support  named  pipes
       (FIFOs)  or the /dev/fd method of naming open files.  It takes the form

       of <(list) or >(list).  The process list is run with its input or  out-
       put connected to a FIFO or some file in /dev/fd.  The name of this file
       is passed as an argument to the current command as the  result  of  the

       expansion.

-- 
-Clark