Re: [Help-bash] coprocess help

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:07:15PM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> I am playing with coproc.bash that comes with version 3.2.25
> Having no luck
> 
> $ coprocess open "/usr/bin/bc -l"
> [1] 13460
> $ /usr/share/doc/bash-3.2/functions/coproc.bash: line 53: /usr/bin/bc -l: 
> No such file or directory

It's looking for a file literally named "bc -l" in that directory,
because line 53 looks like this:

        ( "$@" <$fifo.in >$fifo.out ; rm -f "$fifo.in" "$fifo.out" ) &

So remove the quotes around the command.  You want each argument to be
separate.