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Date:      Sat, 28 Sep 2002 22:56:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bourne shell redirection of STDOUT
Message-ID:  <200209282056.g8SKuRWw097543@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020928170713.00bcc758@mail.lusidor.nu>

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Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com> wrote:
 > Does anyone have an alternative to this? I would like to be able to run 
 > this script read-only :
 > #!/bin/sh
 > DIALOG=${DIALOG=/usr/bin/dialog}
 > dialog --inputbox "Hitme" 8 40  \
 >   2> /tmp/tempfile
 > myvar=`cat /tmp/tempfile`

Nice example of abuse of cat.  :-)

#!/bin/sh -
DIALOG=${DIALOG=/usr/bin/dialog}
myvar=$($DIALOG --inputbox "Hitme" 8 40 2>&1 >$(tty))

Regards
   Oliver

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