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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