Shell redirection is rewinding?!?

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Wed Feb 18 09:48:43 EST 2004


kclark wrote:
>makewhatis is a shell script that does all sorts of hokey stuff
>with shell redirection, like opening its own fds for stderr


Yeah - what HE said.  FYI, depending on your purposes,
it's possible that executing makewhatis via the
"script" program could help you capture the info you
need, though that approach has its own problems...
 



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