Hi, I though I remember long time ago some trick that would allow a script to redirect its stdin/stdout from/to a file without having to enclose the entire script inside a sub-shell.
I mean, something like: #!/bin/sh (command; command; ... ..) < /dev/null > output 2>&1 Would work, but I think that I saw something to achieve the same in a more elegant way. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? As a secondary question - for this specific script, it's important for me to actually close its standard input so when some of the commands get executed they'll know that they have nothing to wait on from the keyboard. Right now I just redirect it from /dev/null from the command line which executes the script but was wondering if there is a way to say "close fd 0" in shell inside the script itself. The environment is CentOS 5, but I like portable solutions. Thanks. --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
