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Re: [Help-bash] stdout and stderr to two different process substitutions


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] stdout and stderr to two different process substitutions
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:04:22 -0500
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:50:35AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> > pipe A leads to gzip, whose stdout goes to the file xx.gz.  Special pipe
> > B leads to tee, which writes a copy of the piped input to the file yy,
> > and another copy of the piped input to the screen (foo's stderr).
> 
> This looks a little wired to me. I though that the last "2" refers to
> the stderr of tee, but it actually refers to the stderr of the main
> process?

tee inherits stderr from the script, *before* the script's stderr is
redirected to the special pipe.  So writing to tee's stderr is basically
writing to the script's stderr before it gets modified.

> Note: I'm a little confused whether it should be tee's stdout or the
> main stdout. It seems to be tee's stdout, as I don't see any output
> from
> 
>  { echo STDOUT ; echo STDERR 1>&2 ;} > >(gzip > xx.gz) 2> >(tee yy)
> 
> But this sees to be asymmetric, why tee's stdout is redirected to the
> main stderr but not tee' stderr?

First, let's observe what it actually does:

imadev:~$ cat yy
STDERR
imadev:~$ zcat xx.gz 
STDOUT
STDERR

The only explanation which can account for that behavior is that the
process substitutions are not all done at the same time.

  foo > >(gzip) 2> >(tee)
      ^  ^       ^  ^
      |  |       |  |
      2  1       4  3

It appears that each process substitution is done immediately before its
accompanying redirection.  In order 1 2 3 4 as shown in the diagram.

So, foo's (the script's) stdout has already been redirected (step 2) at
the time the process substitution for tee is performed (step 3).  Which
means tee inherits the modified stdout, and the pristine stderr.



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