From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O4Kp9-0007nm-NG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:17:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 820BDE09CE; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A65CE09CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4KoA-0006M0-69 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:16:39 -0400 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3KLGbgB004005 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:16:37 -0400 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o3KLGbpM004002 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:16:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:16:37 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn. Message-ID: <20100420211637.GA3626@math.princeton.edu> References: <4bc476e8.C4RXe/EmECPtoOfJ%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <4BC4A707.6010304@gmail.com> <4BC4CB94.60003@gmail.com> <4bc5883f.0Epve90YV+2JFXmB%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <4BC5C5E2.7040205@gmail.com> <4bc5dc10.8UgamybYM//WIGKR%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <4BCD06E4.5090800@gmail.com> <4bcdca61.PNjjCLnJvAw5rf+l%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: f8fd434d-a8f6-44e6-9870-910c31858adf X-Archives-Hash: 2f0d84bca9f96cfc19794a0569b6eef0 On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:45:27AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > /dev/fd/0 is /dev/stdin > > I learned something new, thanks :) To complete your education :) fd stands for file descriptor. fd/0 = stdin fd/1 = stdout fd/2 = stderr You can create your own file descriptors and use them to manipulate opened files. See man bash for more info. (It is, for example, necessary if you do CLI scripting with a user interface using Dialog.) Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton