bug#13243: closed (Re: bug#13243: [PATCH] enhancement: modify md5sum to allow piping)

[Daniel Santos]

On 12/20/2012 04:51 PM, GNU bug Tracking System wrote:
> Your bug report
>
> #13243: [PATCH] enhancement: modify md5sum to allow piping
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> which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.
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Wow! It was worth writing a patch just to discover the >(list) and 
<(list) constructs.  I knew about tee, but I had no idea about this, 
thanks!! I've even known how to do this across programs written in C, I 
just didn't know there was a bash mechanism for it.  So I guess bash 
substitutes the parameter name with the /dev/fd<n> or some such for the 
named pipe it creates?  I'll have to read up on it more.

Well there's still some goodies that can be filtered out, like the copy 
& paste removal. But don't bother sifting through the patches I 
submitted for that, I'll make a new patch set for it (gnulib).

Daniel