[mdlug] UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

[Michael Corral]

2008-03-12, Monsieur Raymond McLaughlin a ecrit:
> In this vein, this command:
>  w3m mdlug.org/contacts/president/scripts+scraps/home/.bashrc
> will send the file to standard output, but
>  w3m mdlug.org/contacts/president/scripts+scraps/home/.bashrc |source -
> will not source this stdout.
> It seems there should be a way to do this just using pipes, but I
> haven't been able to do it without writing to a local file first.

See my previous post with the example of how using a pipe can sometimes
give unexpected results in bash. You could probably use coprocesses to
do the trick, but bash doesn't have those yet, IIRC (ksh93 does, though).

Even if you do my 'x=a; echo "b"|read x; echo $x' example in bash and
then in zsh, you'll see the difference.

Michael