On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> For instance, I can >> never remember the syntax for redirecting stderr and stdout at the >> command line, and have that page bookmarked (it's on page 55: C:\>dir >> c:\temp\out.txt 2>&1) > > OT, but if you think that's hard to remember, you should see some of > the constructs the Unix Bourne shell enables, given that you can open, > close, and dupe arbitrary file descriptors. For example: > > foo 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 3>&- > > ... runs "foo" with stdout and stderr flipped. And yes, I have to > look that up! :-)
I've not run into the need to do that, and I think I'm grateful... Besides, the default shell in FreeBSD is (t)csh, and it's what I stick with - don't even know if you can do that in tcsh. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
