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From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
To: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us>
Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>,
	mike <mike@labs.unixhideout.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: simple question
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul A. Scott wrote:

> > Just a shot in the dark, but how about...
> >
> > # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz &
>
> Actually, that won't work. The 'script' command will redirect the output to
> a file, but it still outputs to the terminal, which is not what was
> originally requested. My previous explanation is the correct solution.

# script tarout tar -xvf ports.tar > /dev/null

But it doesn't seem to work with the &, as it says something about
suspended tty output. Your solution, while teaching people the magic
of shells, is correct and working. As I wrote, it was just a shot in
the dark. :-)

Best regards,
Paul


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