[clug] shell stdout and stderr

Michael Cohen michael.cohen at netspeed.com.au
Thu Dec 1 12:58:58 GMT 2005


On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:18:07PM +1100, Peter Barker wrote:
> This things are always interesting. I just spotted the "we treat
> /dev/tcp/<host>/<port> specially" bit in the bash redirection stuff. Handy
> if you've no netcat.

Seems to be only enabled if you compile bash with
--enable-net-redirections which for some reason is not done in stock
debian (surprise?).

Michael


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