[clug] IO redirection
Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet)
kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Sun Sep 17 14:11:39 UTC 2017
Thanks for your interest, Kim:
> fish Test.txt
That actually worked! The desired result appeared beneath a Buddhist
saying. Displayed by the following package.
display-dhammapada
> . Test.txt
WTF? That worked too! But I can't find documentation explaining the use
of `.' as a command. Please refer me to such an explanatory page.
> exec Test.txt
That yielded the following error.
{
Test.txt: command not found
fish: exec Test.txt
^
}
> But that is probably not what you want to do.
I had been reading through the fish shell documentation. Trying to get
my head around the concepts. And also learning the syntax.
{
Most programs use three input/output (IO) streams, each represented by a
number called a file descriptor (FD). These are:
Standard input, FD 0, for reading, defaults to reading from the
keyboard.
Standard output, FD 1, for writing, defaults to writing to the screen.
Standard error, FD 2, for writing errors and warnings, defaults to
writing to the screen.
The reason for providing for two output file descriptors is to allow
separation of errors and warnings from regular program output.
Any file descriptor can be directed to a different output than its
default through a simple mechanism called a redirection.
An example of a file redirection is echo hello > output.txt, which
directs the output of the echo command to the file output.txt.
To read standard input from a file, write <SOURCE_FILE
To write standard output to a file, write >DESTINATION
To write standard error to a file, write ^DESTINATION
To append standard output to a file, write >>DESTINATION_FILE
To append standard error to a file, write ^^DESTINATION_FILE
To not overwrite ("clobber") an existing file, write
'>?DESTINATION' or '^?DESTINATION'
}
http://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html
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