Re: trap handler scope wrong?

[Chet Ramey]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> 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.

Probably won't work to use /dev/tty in that case.

> 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

That's about right, but you need >&3 in the trap command.

Chet
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