So, my manager, in zsh, can do the following: scp -i =(ssh -qnx <snip> cat /etc/ks/ks_dsa) localfile server:/whereitgoes Does anyone have any ideas what the syntax in bash is? I've been playing with this for hours. My manager says that zsh treats the cat'd key as a file, while if you try it with bash, replacing the = with <, it asks for the passphrase of what must be a socket. mark
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:44 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> So, my manager, in zsh, can do the following: > scp -i =(ssh -qnx <snip> cat /etc/ks/ks_dsa) localfile server:/whereitgoes > > Does anyone have any ideas what the syntax in bash is? I've been playing > with this for hours. My manager says that zsh treats the cat'd key as a > file, while if you try it with bash, replacing the = with <, it asks for > the passphrase of what must be a socket. >In bash <(command ...) should give you /dev/fd/## - connected to the output of the command. Which seems like it should work for that. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On Oct 12, 2012, at 1:44 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us<mailto:m.roth at 5-cent.us>> <m.roth at 5-cent.us<mailto:m.roth at 5-cent.us>> wrote: So, my manager, in zsh, can do the following: scp -i =(ssh -qnx <snip> cat /etc/ks/ks_dsa) localfile server:/whereitgoes Does anyone have any ideas what the syntax in bash is? I've been playing with this for hours. My manager says that zsh treats the cat'd key as a file, while if you try it with bash, replacing the = with <, it asks for the passphrase of what must be a socket. mark The document http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Intro/intro_7.html has some description about =(?) Not a zsh user myself Ton Schreiner