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I suspect this has been answered before, but I don't know what this is called, so I can't really search for it.

How come this works : 

$ grep H=p <(udevadm info /dev/ttyUSB0)
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.5.2:1.0

But this doesn't ? : 

$ sudo grep H=p <(udevadm info /dev/ttyUSB0)
grep: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory

Nevermind the fact that sudo isn't necessary in this case, please.

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The shell is replacing <(udevadm info /dev/ttyUSB0) with /dev/fd/63 (after dup'ing the read end of the pipe to fd 63) before running the command. However, sudo closes all file descriptors greater than 2 by default. You can change this by using sudo's --close-from flag, but there's a better way:

sudo bash -c 'grep H=p <(udevadm info /dev/ttyUSB0)'

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Neat, thank you. Of course I'll have to practice with it to really learn/understand it in time ! –  robut Jan 25 at 2:05

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