Re: redirection after braced block

[Chet Ramey]

clemens fischer wrote:

> I have the following construct in a script:
> 
>   ... a number of commands
>   {
>       ... a number of commands
>   } 2>&1 | ${prog_log} "${logfile}"
> 
> It seems anything inside the braces is not seen by bash, and it doesn't
> show up in a "sh -x ..." trace, but ${prog_log} does.  I had debug
> echo's at the start of the block, they aren't triggered.

I don't know anything about your program or what else might be going on,
but set -x sends its output to stderr -- if you redirect fd 2, the trace
output is going to be redirected right along with it.

Chet

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