Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!hpldola!hp-lsd!jimr From: jimr@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Jim Rogers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: get terminal speed from shell script Message-ID: <7370009@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> Date: 13 Aug 90 15:38:11 GMT References: <90Aug12.135618edt.18763@me.utoronto.ca> Organization: HP Logic Systems Division - ColoSpgs, CO Lines: 11 If your version of stty writes only to stderr then you can redirect that in a useful manner: speed=`stty speed 2>&1` This will place the the speed of your terminal in the variable speed even if stty writes to stderr. Jim Rogers Hewlett Packard Company