On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:01:48AM +0000, P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> very cool.
> Something related is a simple patch I did to bash to
> seperate the interactive stuff (prompt etc.) from stderr,
> allowing you to process the stderr specially.
>http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2001-08/msg00040.html> I guess this would allow you to `sexec bash` ?
Well right now you can use sexec bash -i, but yes - it's ugly,
it does seem crazy that it uses stderr for it's own prompts.
Using /dev/tty would definitely be useful for keeping track
with sexec, *goes to build a new version of bash*.
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