On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:54:15PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:

> Cool!  I logged onto one of the Linux systems here and found the info
> description OK, but when I tried it out, I got an error:
> 
>     $ vi <(ls)
>     sh: syntax error: `(' unexpected
> 
> I'll have to find out from the Linux sys admin why this doesn't work.
> This would be great for doing stuff like diff'ing the outputs of two
> commands.

It turned out that the login shell on the Linux system I tried was
/usr/bin/sh, which was a symbolic link to /bin/ksh rather than to
/bin/bash.  The command works fine with bash.

Gary

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