On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a bash script sometimes called by another script and sometimes run 
> from the command line.  I would like standard output (and error) to go to 
> the screen if I run the script from the keyboard and to a nominated file 
> if I call it from another script.

in the calling script

        QUIET=YES myscript  my options

in the script

        if [ "$QUIET" = "YES" ] ; then
                X=something
        else
                X=
        fi

Easy really.

-- 
Ken Foskey
OpenOffice.org developer


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