Phillip Susi wrote:
> Does redirecting to /dev/tty work if the original stdout of the shell
> was NOT a tty? This script runs as a cron job so it has no tty.
Probably won't work to use /dev/tty in that case.
> Also is there a better way to save the original stdout and switch back
> to it than this:
>
> trap "cat $LOG > &3" ERR
> {
> foo
> bar
> } 3>&1 > /dev/null
That's about right, but you need >&3 in the trap command.
Chet
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