Re: Perl like select()?

[Josh Howard <jrh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, my ignorance is now managable. Thanks.

Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Josh Howard wrote:
> >Is there any way, in a script, to use a "Perl-like" select() to
> >associate stdout with a particular file, before the execution of the
> >rest of the script?
> 
> 	exec > file
> 
> permanently redirects stdout.  Any redirection can be used this way.
> 
> >                    For instance: I have a shell script that I want to 
> >simply put ">log.file" at the top, and then start echo'ing and doing
> >various output and expect everything to go to log.file,
> 
> Interestingly enough, that's the syntax I used for this operation when
> designing a new shell from scratch[1].
> 
> -zefram
> 
> [1] The Elate shell.  It's proprietary and doesn't run on Unix, so don't
> ask for it.
> 

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Josh Howard <jrh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>