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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash