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

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/14/13 9:00 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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".

That's not strictly true; Posix mode doesn't turn off everything that
Posix doesn't specify.  Process substitution, however, is one of the
things the Posix mode disables.

Chet

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