On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Kathy Bieltz wrote: > I have some scripts that run on several > Unix platforms and run on RH 6.2 just > fine. > > I recently tried to run the following on > my RH 7.1 platform and had my program > core dump with a segmentation fault because > it is reading >/dev/null as the first argument. > > myprogram <<! >/dev/null > first_argument > ! > as a first guess, i would have initially tried
$ myprogram > /dev/null <<! etc etc ... just to play it safe with the way bash handles the delimiter for the here document. does that make a difference? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies, Durham NC Unix, Linux and Open Source training Microsoft: Committed to putting the "backward" into "backward compatibility." _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list