Bash question

[Andreas Sliwka <goff@nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de>]

Hi,
  where or whom should I ask not-so-easy bash questions?

  The one special question or problem is:

  I want to start a program in a shell script, get the filedescriptor for
its standard input and let other programs, which I want to start after the 
first program, writer there standard output into the first ones standard in
(ie make a /bin/program >&filedescriptor).
  A workaround would be to put braces around the programs and pipe the output
of the so started sub-shell into the program 

  ( program_number_1;
    program_number_2;
    ...
    program_number_n; ) | first_program

But thats way to ugly for me ...

Whom can I ask? Where can I look ?

Thanx in advance,

mfg
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