From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 4 12:47:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13435D32 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:47:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD029E49 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11524 invoked by uid 0); 4 Apr 2013 12:47:09 -0000 Received: from 173.48.104.62 (HELO ?10.2.2.1?) (173.48.104.62) by relay02.pair.com with SMTP; 4 Apr 2013 12:47:09 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 173.48.104.62 Message-ID: <515D764D.1040604@sneakertech.com> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:47:09 -0400 From: Quartz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Felder Subject: Re: OT: posix sh problem References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:47:13 -0000 >I'd really like to > have this working cleanly on FreeBSD without requiring any funky shells Define "funky shell". Does it have to be straight up plain sh? Can it use csh or tcsh syntax? Does bash count as 'funky'? > or using any temporary files. Do you mean "manually created temp files"? because some of the different ways of doing process substitution and redirection will automatically create temp files for you in the background and fail on an unwritable filesystem. ______________________________________ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal