[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > aside: Do you know whether there is a way to *switch* two > descriptors (like stdout / stderr) ? I.e. the intuitive > '( ls -d / /asdfasdf 1>&2 2>&1 ) >err 2>out' doesn't work.
As with the classic variable swap trivia problem in a program you need a temporary variable to hold the value so that you can swap everything round robin fashion. The last part closes the temporary and cleans up. ( ls -d / /asdfasdf 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3 3>&- ) >err 2>out Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
