[SunHELP] double IO redirection

Nicholas Dronen sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Jan 26 17:23:57 CST 2001


On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:15:58AM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
> Is it possible in bash or the Bourne shell to redirect the standard 
> output of a child process into its standard input while redirecting 
> bash's output into the child's input?  Am I insane or is it possible?

Your question is odd.  Both your shell and the program your shell forks
and execs use your tty/pty as stdin/stdout/stderr . . . so what are you
trying to accomplish?  Describe the situation.

Regards,

Nick Dronen



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