Re: Redirection of STDERR

[Andreas Schwab]

Stephen Samuel <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Christoph Pleger wrote:
>> Hello,
>> In my initialization scripts for hotplug (written for bash) the
>> following command is used to redirect output which normally goes to
>> stderr to the system logger:
>> "exec 2> >(logger -t $0[$$])"
> I don't remember this syntax as legal.

That's the process substitution feature of bash, quite handy when you want
to get an fd connected to a pipe.

Andreas.

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