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Article #892Re: $() fails if stdin and stdout are not open
From: Chet Ramey
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:45
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:45
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> If bash is run with stdin and stdout closed, the backquoting mechanism fails. > Look: > > bash$ bash -c 'echo foo$(echo bar)baz >/dev/tty' >&- <&- > foobaz I don't know which version you're using (your last message said 1.2), but I don't find this to be a problem with the current development 1.13 on a Sun running SunOS 4.1.2, Decstation running Ultrix 4.2, an IBM RT running 4.3 BSD, or a NeXT running OS 2.1. Chet -- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.'' -- Arthur Schlesinger Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!odin.ins.cwru.edu!chet From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) Subject: Re: $() fails if stdin and stdout are not open Message-ID: <9208131845.AA05611.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: chet@po.cwru.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet References: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) Distribution: gnu Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:45:59 GMT Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 19