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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read input and output redirection filename within a script Post 302454496 by hedonist12 on Saturday 18th of September 2010 02:32:55 PM
Old 09-18-2010
Why I need it is, I have an automation framework that uses a.sh. Now, I do not want to change the original script but come up with a duplicate that does what I have asked for and enables me to make it behave in a different way.
Am sure the best way would be to change the original a.sh and make it handle all the cases. But that's a constraint for me.
 

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vga_unlockvc(3) 						Svgalib User Manual						   vga_unlockvc(3)

NAME
vga_unlockvc - re-enables virtual console switching SYNOPSIS
#include <vga.h> void vga_unlockvc(void); DESCRIPTION
Re-enables virtual console switching. SEE ALSO
svgalib(7), vgagl(7), libvga.config(5), bg_test(6), vga_lockvc(3), vga_oktowrite(3), vga_runinbackground(3), vga_runinbackground_version(3) AUTHOR
This manual page was edited by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>. The exact source of the referenced function as well as of the original documentation is unknown. It is very likely that both are at least to some extent are due to Harm Hanemaayer <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>. Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby asked to be excused by the original author and will happily accept any additions or corrections to this first version of the svgalib manual. Svgalib (>;= 1.2.11) 27 July 1997 vga_unlockvc(3)
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