Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:32:32 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: mmercer@nc.rr.com, mmercer@lboard.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bourne shell question: How to capture stdin and stdout from bourne shell script. Message-ID: <20020323173232.F278@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3C9C9D1B.93CDBC8F@nc.rr.com>; from mmercer@nc.rr.com on Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:19:55AM -0500 References: <3C9BF45E.BBEB5911@nc.rr.com> <20020323034432.GA9544@raggedclown.net> <3C9BFC12.F6C1C22C@nc.rr.com> <20020323105840.B278@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <3C9C9D1B.93CDBC8F@nc.rr.com>
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[cc-ing to -questions, for the benefit of the archives] On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:19:55AM -0500, Michael E Mercer wrote: > Can you explain exactly how this works? I need to capture the output of the script > and > the input of the user in a log file. > > Thanks > Michael Mercer Ahhh, I think I spoke too quickly before :-( The exec trick won't capture the input for you, just redirect it from a file rather than the terminal. It's exactly the same as specifying I/O redirections on the command line, except that they're embedded in the script. I think your other suggestion, of setting $SHELL so that script runs your program rather than a shell, will do what you need though. Apologies for the confusion. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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