Bug in /etc/cron.d/mlocate.cron or am I crazy?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Nov 28 16:17:40 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:53:47AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Have you tried it? The code in the file isn't an error; it's just very
> > obscure bash syntax. That is, $(< /some/file ) is obscure, and $(<
> > /some/file filter-command ) is *really* obscure. Doesn't seem to be
> > documented in the bash manual -- but it works.
> See first chapter of topic "REDIRECTION" in bash manual.

Yeah, not seein' it.

Wouldn't be the first time I've been dense; can you point me at the exact
text?

> > And putting a | in the middle there doesn't.
> That would only work as expected when also replacing "<" with "cat".

Of course.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs / Instructional & Research Computing
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences




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