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- From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Subject: Re: $() fails if stdin and stdout are not open
- Message-ID: <9208131845.AA05611.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- References: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:45:59 GMT
- Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- > If bash is run with stdin and stdout closed, the backquoting mechanism fails.
- > Look:
- >
- > bash$ 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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