Re: Re: [ilugd] Shell Script:Help Required.

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>>>>> "Sandip" == Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]> writes:

    Sandip> [Please use ilug-dev for programming questions. CCing to
    Sandip> it. All future replies will only go there.]

    Sandip> On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 4:12 pm, amitflu wrote:
    >> I need to use the name of the Standard output file provided by
    >> the user in a shell script.  for example:- ./myscript.sh >
    >> amit.txt so I need to use "amit.txt" somewhere into my shell
    >> scipt.  So please tell me how can i fetch it.

    Sandip> You cant. there is no concept of stand output
    Sandip> *file*. There is just standard output. If you want to
    Sandip> write to the file, dont use redirection - pass the file
    Sandip> name as a parameter to the script, and write to it.

Well, actually you can -- remember the /proc filesystem?  You can do
pretty ghastly things with /proc/self/fd, but the question is, would
you want to?

Regards,

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