[clug] IO redirection

Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Mon Sep 25 09:14:44 UTC 2017


Hey Kim:

> for exec to work, Test.txt has to be executable and must be full path or in the path.
> 
> chmod 755 ./Test.txt
> 
> exec ./Test.txt
> 
> exec is always the last command executed in a script.  It doesn't return to the script.

That only seemed to close the terminal window. Though now upon "ls -la", 
fish highlights Test.txt in green, and appends an asterisk. Its 
permissions now appear "-rwxr-xr-x".

Whereas the following works.
{
eval (cat Test.txt)
}
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