[clug] shell stdout and stderr

[Kim Holburn]

On 2005 Dec 01, at 4:10 PM, Tony and Robyn Lewis wrote:

> David Gibson wrote:
>
>> 	exec > stdout.out 2> stderr.out
>>
>> i.e. the "exec" shell builtin without specifying a command to exec
>> will apply the given redirections to the current shell.
>>
> Damn.  Kim was right.  Shared points to David and Kim.
>
> Now, next question, is how to cancel that redirection and get  
> stdout going back to my terminal.  Clues?

I *think* the simplest way is to use a sub shell.  Gets around all  
those save environemt - mess it up - restore things:

stuff
stuff
(
   exec > ...
   stuff
)
# back to old environment.

Could be wrong here though.

>
> Tony
>
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