Blah, I joined two different output runs and grabbed the wrong parts. > Where "HERE" is above things are swapped. Sample follows... > > msimons@star:~/debian$ cat ascript > #! /bin/bash > echo "something on stderr" 1>&2 > echo "something on stdout" > msimons@star:~$ ./ascript > something on stderr > something on stdout > msimons@star:~$ ./ascript > /dev/null > something on stderr > msimons@star:~$ ./ascript 2> /dev/null > something on stdout msimons@star:~$ ( ./ascript 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3 ) 2> /dev/null something on stderr msimons@star:~$ ( ./ascript 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3 ) 1> /dev/null something on stdout msimons@star:~$
You can see from the last two sample that "2> /dev/null" throws away the scripts command's stdout... _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
