On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:25, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide': > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Christopher Fisk wrote: > > It's just bash scripting, just tell bash to exec child.sh in the > > background. > > > > /path/to/child.sh & > > Nope. I need the child in the foreground, so that its output and stderr > goes to multilog.
Putting something in the background doesn't change what it's std(in|out| err) are attached to. They will still go to the [pt]ty like normal. If you *want* then redirected somewhere else, you are free to do so with standard redirection operations before the ampersand. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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