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Re: exec status with no command is 0 but no redirection
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: exec status with no command is 0 but no redirection |
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Fri, 14 May 2010 21:31:19 +0200 |
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Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> Beyond this I am not sure what you wanted to do with exec. You may
> have wanted this:
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> exec iconv -f ISO_8859-1 -t UTF-8
I think he rather wants this:
exec > >(iconv -f ISO_8859-1 -t UTF-8)
(See Process Substitution in the bash manual.)
Alternatively, enclose the whole script in { ... } and add the pipe
after that.
Andreas.
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