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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: coprocs - again (Was: Different variable assignments)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:35:49 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 06:26:14 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

> I meant that you can have several asynchroneous processes started which
> are each connected to the same main shell session with pipes for
> communicating. For that you have to redirect the default pipe channels
> because there's of course just one option '-p' with the commands 'read'
> and 'print' and you need some way to differentiate the various channels.

Bash does that in a nicer way.