Re: xtrace output on new file descriptor

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/10/09 10:12 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone has any tricks to preserve stderr on
> filedescriptor 2 and get xtrace output on a different file descriptor.
> 
> I've pulled hair trying to get the redirection right for this but just
> come up with the right combination.  I'd imagine it involves stashing
> away fd 2, duplicating fd 2 to a new fd and then restoring fd back from
> where it was stashed, or somesuch.
> 
> So to be clear, I want stdout on fd 1, stderr on fd 2 (as they are
> normally) and then the xtrace output on some other fd, presumably 3.
> 
> Ideas?

Nothing good.  The next version of bash will allow you specify an arbitrary
file descriptor where the xtrace output will be written.

Chet
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