Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chet Ramey wrote: >> That's about right, but you need >&3 in the trap command. > > I did have > &3 in the trap command, see?
You have "> &3". You need ">&3", without a space. > 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? Unfortunately, no. You could use a higher number, which would be less likely to be used, but if you want to be portable to other shells, you can only go up to 9. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
