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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Can I get back stdout after redirection?
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Date: 1 May 91 04:54:51 GMT
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In article <48186@ut-emx.uucp>, pefv700@perv.pe.utexas.edu writes:
|> Since the shell has already closed stdout's file descriptor, is it not
|> possible to reopen it?

  You can't get back stdout per se.  However, if stdout was pointing to your
terminal before the shell closed it, you can open "/dev/tty" to get a file
descriptor to write to the terminal.

|> (Also, how did stdout get opened in the first
|> place?  The shell inherited it from its parent, didn't it?)

  Yes.

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