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From: Michael E Mercer <mmercer@nc.rr.com>
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Subject: A Solution: Re: Bourne shell question: How to capture stdin and stdout 
 from bourne shell script.
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I have set the SHELL variable to the name of the script I want to capture.
Then I run the script command and it runs the "SHELL".

This seems to be working for the moment. Does anyone know why I should
not use script in this way?

later
MeM


Scott Mitchell wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:52:50PM -0500, Michael E Mercer wrote:
> > Forgot to mention, I need this for solaris 8 platform. I already read the man
> > page for script
> > and it does not look like it supports the 'command' option that freebsd does.
> >
> > Oh well.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Michael
> >
>
> It looks like the Solaris /bin/sh knows about the
>
>         exec < /some/file > /some/other/file
>
> trick.  Just use this in your script, and all subsequent input/output will
> use the specified files.
>
> HTH,
>
>         Scott
>
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