Re: Bash heredoc on FD 3

[cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>]

On 12/4/2018 7:13 AM, Houder wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2018 10:43:17, Steven Penny  wrote:
>> Using this file:
>>
>>      $ cat hello.sh
>>      awk -f /dev/fd/3 3<<eof
>>      BEGIN {
>>        print "hello world"
>>      }
>>      eof
>>
>> it runs as expected with Dash:
>>
>>      $ dash hello.sh
>>      hello world
>>
>> However it fails with Bash:
>>
>>      $ bash hello.sh
>>      awk: fatal: can't open source file `/dev/fd/3' for reading (No such file or
>>      directory)
>>
>> I tried also with Debian and both Dash and Bash work as expected. What is
>> causing Cygwin Bash to fail here?
> 
> File to which symlnk /dev/fd/3 refers has "gone"; different from Linux, where
> the file is "deleted", but still "available".
> (note: dash uses a different implementation)

Dash is faster in processing the data but can be made to fail if you add 
-d to the ls commands you're using.

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