Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Frank Küster wrote: >> >> db_get mypackage/someinfo >> >> VAR=`process $RET | mangle with $WHATEVER` >> >> exec 3>&1 >> $someconffile >> echo "#added by postinst" >> echo $VAR >> exec >&3 >> >> Of course in this case, a here-document would be sufficient, but not >> generally. > > Generally sure, this is ok. You need to be a little bit careful with > debconf and filehandle swapping later, since it always swaps them around > as follows, and takes over stdin and stdout: > > exec 3>&1 1>&2 > > Since you apparently understand exec file handle switching
As far as I understand, knowing this it even gets simpler: I just do exec >> $someconffile commands exec >&3 since 3>&1 has yet been done. Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
