Re: Success, to some extent

[Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org>]

>>>>> Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:

 TBB> Some scripts also might want to look at the file name and key
 TBB> off that (a gross programming technique, I agree), and they
 TBB> would lose if the file name were always /dev/fd/NNN.

It's gross when the name of the file affects the script's basic
behaviour, but very, very useful and pretty when it's used only for
error messages.

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