Phillip Susi wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> trap "cat $LOG > &3" ERR
>>> {
>>> foo
>>> bar
>>> } 3>&1 > /dev/null
>>
>> That's about right, but you need >&3 in the trap command.
>
> I did have > &3 in the trap command, see?
There can't be a space between `>' and `&'. That's a syntax error.
> I'm a bit worried though about hard coding the fd 3. Is there a way to
> get the next available fd number and save it in a variable, rather than
> hard code 3?
Why worry about it? The script writer is entitled to use any file
descriptor between 0 and 9. If bash is using it internally, it will
switch to another.
Chet
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