From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Jahwan Kim <jahwan@math.lsa.umich.edu>, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Redirection in the middle of a script?
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:01:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <970929230139.ZM13906@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19970930000422.03879@supernova.math.lsa.umich.edu>
On Sep 30, 12:04am, Jahwan Kim wrote:
} Subject: Redirection in the middle of a script?
}
} I have this long-standing question, which I can't find an answer to,
} perhaps because it's impossible. Is it possible to redirect
} STDOUT/STDIN/STDERR/just about any file descriptor *in the middle of* a
} script, not at the beginning? That is,
You can do this in any Bourne-shell-like shell, even very old ones, with
exec <foo.in # redirects stdin
exec >foo.out # redirects stdout
exec 2>foo.err # redirects stderr
This is all documented in the "Redirection" section of the zsh manual.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-30 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-30 4:04 Jahwan Kim
1997-09-30 6:01 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1997-09-30 9:18 ` Andrew Main
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