From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from proxy2.ba.best.com ([206.184.139.14]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <45271>; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:49:04 -0500 Received: from rakitzis.com ([207.20.242.213]) by proxy2.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with ESMTP id JAA05580; Mon, 28 May 2001 09:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from byron@localhost) by rakitzis.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f4SGKkI02864; Mon, 28 May 2001 09:20:46 -0700 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 12:20:46 -0500 From: Byron Rakitzis Message-Id: <200105281620.f4SGKkI02864@rakitzis.com> To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, russell.davies@db.com Subject: Re: bug? Whether it's a bug depends on your expectations -- but redirections happen in a subshell and you'd have to know that. You could do: exec > /dev/null cd e exec > /dev/tty