Re: Problem with zip completion

[Sweth Chandramouli <svc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:13:55AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 17:57:57 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > My assumption would be that if stdout is redirected, then the child that's
> > exiting must not be a child of the top-level interactive shell, and thus
> > changing the terminal title would at best be a waste of effort.
> 
> Well, maybe. I thought that stdout (of the top-level shell) could be
> temporarily redirected with some obscure builtins I didn't know.
	No need for obscure builtins; standard redirection can
always be applied to the current shell via exec:

$ exec > /tmp/file
$ ls
$ exec > /dev/tty
$ ls
file1 file2 file3
$ cat /tmp/file
file1
file2
file3

	.  I'm not sure why you'd want to do that in an interactive
shell, though.

	-- Sweth.

-- 
Sweth Chandramouli ; <svc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
President, Idiopathic Systems Consulting