[clug] shell stdout and stderr

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at anu.edu.au
Thu Dec 1 06:14:53 GMT 2005


Except I like Peter's solution best.

On 2005 Dec 01, at 4:56 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:

>
> 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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