On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:05:09AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 12/12/11 7:54 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: > > [root@appserver2 ~]# mkfifo /tmp/myfifo > > [root@appserver2 ~]# echo ls -l >/tmp/myfifo & > > [2] 23771 > > [root@appserver2 ~]# source /tmp/myfifo # no `ls´ output here...
> This is a less-than-ideal example, since it attempts to execute the > `ls -l' output as commands. Replacing the `ls -l' with `echo hello world' > results in `hello world' on bash-4.0, bash-4.1, and bash-4.2 on Mac OS X > and RHEL 5. I think you overlooked the "echo" in his second command. Running Timothy's commands works for me (I get the directory listing) in bash 4.2.20 and 3.2.48 and 2.05b, on HP-UX 10.20.
