[Gllug] This morning`s shell script question

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:23:00AM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> That's very interesting - redirecting 2> to a >(        )   !!
> 
> I shall have to try it on my Unix box as well and see if it works there.
> A handy tip for the future.
> 
> I tried also the following kludge, out of interest:_
> mkfifo   /tmp/xyz
> log-command < /tmp/xyz &
> command  2> /tmp/xyz
> rm /tmp/xyz

That is sort of what you get with >&p in ksh.

> 'command' will send stderr throught the named-pipe /tmp/xyz to 'log-cmd',
> which executes in 'background' and terminates when 'command'itself terminates.


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