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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
>Thanks a lot , I test ran it. This is great

No problem. I should add that if this is to be part of a long running 
script, you should close the co-process (the while-loop running cat), 
with something like:

exec 5<&p
exec 5<&-