Process substitution, the other way around

[lloeki]

diff (sort a.txt|psub) (sort b.txt|psub) is the most well known example of process substitution, but it's supposed to work the other way around too.

Bash:

$ xxd -l 20 -p /dev/random | tee >(cat 1>&2) | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
2f441071086cabff98063780d1cc168803aadeb2
2F441071086CABFF98063780D1CC168803AADEB2

Fish:

> xxd -l 20 -p /dev/random | tee (psub | cat 1>&2) | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
/tmp/.psub.cKChjevJJ7
A36ACA436120802CAF07AD859880BD8F03E76A5B

Ouch.

[metal3d]

Exactly what I need 👍

[metal3d]

Precision, an example of what I need:

With bash

#!/bin/bash

exec 3> >(zenity --progress)

for i in $(seq 0 10 100); do
    sleep 1
    echo "hey $i"
    echo $i >&3
done

With fish

#!env fish

exec 3> (psub | zenity --progress)

for i in (seq 0 10 100)
    sleep 1
    echo "hey $i"
    echo $i >&3
end

That doesn't work at all... Or maybe I'm doing it wrong.

[zanchey]

No, it doesn't work yet.

[metal3d]

yeah, the problem is pointed on the 3>

env LANG=en fish z.fish                                                                                                                                  16:03:57
fish: Encountered redirection when expecting a command name. Fish does not allow a redirection operation before a command.
/tmp/z.fish (line 3): exec 3> (psub | zenity --progress)
                           ^
fish: Illegal command name '(psub | zenity --progress)'
/tmp/z.fish (line 3): exec 3> (psub | zenity --progress)
                              ^
fish: Error while reading file /tmp/z.fish

Waiting for that feature :)

[rocketraman]

Another example: keeping standard output on the screen as well as piping it to the next command.

See http://stackoverflow.com/a/5677425/430128

[lordlycastle]

Another example: keeping standard output on the screen as well as piping it to the next command.

This works:

~ ) echo 'foo' | tee (tty) | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
foo
FOO

At least on OS X.

[metal3d]

@lordlycastle it works on Linux also, thanks

[xealits]

A useful example of >(...) from stackexchange, redirection to multiple pipes/pipelines:

seq 10 | tee >(rev > out1) >(tac > out2) >(shuf > out3)