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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ 2007-10-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> * doc/coreutils.texi (tee invocation): Fix typo. Add a little. + Add a cross-reference to bashref's Process Substitution node. Adjust tests to pass, now that Test.pm ones use check.mk. * tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Adjust regexp not to match the diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index c729b2265..aa25fcd08 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -11085,9 +11085,12 @@ but also to a pipe running @command{sha1sum} and saving the final checksum in a file named @file{dvd.sha1}. Note, however, that this example relies on a feature of modern shells -called process substitution (the @samp{>(command)} syntax, above), -so it works with e.g., @command{zsh}, @command{bash}, or @command{ksh}, -but not with a minimal @command{/bin/sh}. So if you use this technique +called @dfn{process substitution} +(the @samp{>(command)} syntax, above; +@xref{Process Substitution,,Process Substitution, bashref, +The Bash Reference Manual}.), +so it works with @command{zsh}, @command{bash}, and @command{ksh}, +but not with @command{/bin/sh}. So if you write code like this in a shell script, be sure to start the script with @samp{#!/bin/bash}. You can extend this example to make @command{tee} write to two processes, |