Re: trap handler scope wrong?

[Phillip Susi]

Does redirecting to /dev/tty work if the original stdout of the shell was NOT a tty?  This script runs as a cron job so it has no tty.  

Also is there a better way to save the original stdout and switch back to it 
than this:

trap "cat $LOG > &3" ERR
{
 foo
 bar
} 3>&1 > /dev/null


Chet Ramey wrote:
> The ERR trap is handled in the context in which the shell is currently
> running.  If you want to display the log file on the terminal when the
> ERR trap is run, you can either save the original stdout and make the
> trap command (the `cat $LOGFILE') redirect its stdout there, or you can
> redirect the trap command's standard output directly to /dev/tty.
>
> Chet