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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Redirecting stdout problem Post 302659307 by igurov on Wednesday 20th of June 2012 04:52:57 PM
Old 06-20-2012
Redirecting stdout problem
I have a simple bash script that prints sth every 5 seconds. What I do is the following. I redirect the output of the script to a file, tail the file and see that it works and then from another console I delete the file where the output is redirected to. Even though I have deleted the file, the tail still works. Stoping the tail and starting it again of course fails because the file is not found.
My question is whether this is normal and does the output go "somewhere" after deleting the file where it is supposed to be redirected.

Best,
Iliya
 

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