text_combined: stephen shirley diamondskynetie mornin last night involved epic struggle write shell script certain task battle raged hours im glad inform emerged victorious problem follows easy get one program act output second program cmd1 cmd2 want cmd1 act output cmd2 well hmm eventually came solution mkfifo io cmd1 io bingo well world sneaking suspcion might possible without using fifo done using something like exec 31 cmd1 3 cmd2 3 exec 3 doesnt work form couldnt work incantation would anyone got suggestions anyway victory mine happy person case wondering aim write shell script could check new mail imap server steve oh look pigeon love irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie sat 20 jul 2002 104736 0100 ilug vanquishing daemons shell scripting