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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Redirecting shell output.
Message-ID: <2088@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 22:23:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.2088
Posted: Mon Oct 19 22:23:48 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 21:01:52 EDT
References: <289@minya.UUCP>
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: exec sh <<'NEVER_HAPPENS' >file

In article <289@minya.UUCP>, jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
> 					Is there a "right" way
> to tell the shell to redirect the output of ALL subsequent commands to a
> file?

We ran into this when running stuff at startup from /etc/rc (on a
v7-based system, not that it matters).  I found all those ">/dev/console"s
a bit ugly.  Mark Brader, {lsuc,sq}!msb suggested:

exec sh <<'_UNTIL_THE_END_OF_THIS_FILE_' >/dev/console 2>&1

which we've been using for years now.  Note that sh doesn't
ever need to find the _UNTIL_etc. string; if it encounters
EOF it exits happily.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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