From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: jrh@vicor-nb.com (Josh Howard)
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Perl like select()?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:16:04 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E11JfiW-0001Ad-00@crucigera.fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87so57dfpi.fsf@evermore.vicor-nb.com> from Josh Howard at "Aug 25, 1999 8:48: 9 am"
Josh Howard wrote:
>Is there any way, in a script, to use a "Perl-like" select() to
>associate stdout with a particular file, before the execution of the
>rest of the script?
exec > file
permanently redirects stdout. Any redirection can be used this way.
> For instance: I have a shell script that I want to
>simply put ">log.file" at the top, and then start echo'ing and doing
>various output and expect everything to go to log.file,
Interestingly enough, that's the syntax I used for this operation when
designing a new shell from scratch[1].
-zefram
[1] The Elate shell. It's proprietary and doesn't run on Unix, so don't
ask for it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-25 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-25 15:48 Josh Howard
1999-08-25 16:16 ` Zefram [this message]
1999-08-25 16:48 ` Owen M. Astley
1999-08-25 17:00 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-08-25 17:08 ` Owen M. Astley
1999-08-25 16:49 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-08-25 18:35 ` Josh Howard
1999-08-27 10:56 ` Nemeth Ervin
1999-08-25 16:26 Jay Sekora
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