Questions tagged [coprocesses]
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Run command in background with foreground terminal access
I am trying to create a function that can run an arbitrary command, interact with the child process (specifics omitted), and then wait for it to exit. If successful, typing run <command> will ...
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How does bash coprocess achieve its pipelining?
Note this passage from man bash ( emphasis mine ):
Coprocesses
A coprocess is a shell command preceded by the coproc reserved word. A
coprocess is executed asynchronously in a subshell, as ...
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Is coproc <command> the same as <command> &? [duplicate]
I have read that $coproc < command > is different from $< command > & in that coproc will execute command in a sub-shell process.
But when I tested it, it worked just like $< ...
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inter process comunication in bash read commands in multiple background functions
I'm trying to get the following code to read from a main input then read that in one function then be able to send that into the input of another function but i am having trouble getting it to work ...
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Why does this gawk coprocess hang?
While having a go at Convert date in bash shell, I tried GNU awk's coprocess feature:
gawk -F, -v cmd='date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" -f-' '{print $5 |& cmd; cmd |& getline d; $5 = d}1' foo
This ...
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Joined pipelines
Considering a routine such as this one:
alpha() { echo a b c |tr ' ' '\n'; }
which outputs a stream, I would like to take the output stream, transform it, and paste it with the original output ...
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How do you use the command coproc in various shells?
Can someone provide a couple of examples on how to use coproc?
