Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes: > Beyond this I am not sure what you wanted to do with exec. You may > have wanted this: > > exec iconv -f ISO_8859-1 -t UTF-8
I think he rather wants this: exec > >(iconv -f ISO_8859-1 -t UTF-8) (See Process Substitution in the bash manual.) Alternatively, enclose the whole script in { ... } and add the pipe after that. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."