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Re: fooling a non-"stdin redirection accepting" app (colortail)??



On 2012-11-24 11:36 +0100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> On 11/24/12, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

>> Probably "colortail -f <(systemd-journalctl -f)" will do the trick.
>
> This doesn't work - I guess "<" is still a redirection to stdin or something.

No.

> For colortail, we need to auto-generate the corresponding filename for stdin.

It reports /dev/fd/63 here.  Since I did not boot with systemd as PID 1,
I tested with "colortail -f <(tail -f /var/log/auth.log)", however.

Cheers,
       Sven


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