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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ambiguous output redirect in xterm Post 302903881 by MadeInGermany on Friday 30th of May 2014 09:49:49 AM
Old 05-30-2014
What you want is
Code:
xterm -hold -e "sh -c 'rsh amaqc01 tar -cvML471859200 -f amatap0"$tape_nd":/dev/st"$tape_dr" /dir1/dir2 2>&1' | foo/bar.txt" &

Or you can code it for csh (only):
Code:
xterm -hold -e "rsh amaqc01 tar -cvML471859200 -f amatap0"$tape_nd":/dev/st"$tape_dr" /dir1/dir2 |& foo/bar.txt" &

Do you really need to capture stderr in foo/bar.txt?
If not, in your current script you can simply omit the 2>&1.
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resize(1X)																resize(1X)

NAME
resize - set TERMCAP and terminal settings to current xterm window size SYNOPSIS
resize [-u] [-c] [-s[row col]] OPTIONS
The following options may be used with resize: This option indicates that Bourne shell commands should be generated even if the user's cur- rent shell is not /bin/sh. This option indicates that C shell commands should be generated even if the user's current shell is not /bin/csh. This option indicates that Sun console escape sequences will be used instead of the special xterm escape code. If rows and col- umns are given, resize will ask the xterm to resize itself. However, the window manager may choose to disallow the change. DESCRIPTION
The resize command prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm win- dow from which the command is run. For this output to take effect, resize must either be evaluated as part of the command line (usually done with a shell alias or function) or else redirected to a file which can then be read in. From the C shell (usually known as /bin/csh), the following alias could be defined in the user's % alias rs 'set noglob; eval `resize`' After resizing the window, the user would type: % rs Users of versions of the Bourne shell (usually known as /bin/sh) that do not have command functions will need to send the output to a tem- porary file and the read it back in with the "." command: $ resize > /tmp/out $ . /tmp/out FILES
for the base termcap entry to modify. user's alias for the command. BUGS
The -u or -c must appear to the left of -s if both are specified. SEE ALSO
csh(1), tset(1), xterm(1X) AUTHORS
Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley) Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by X Consortium See X(1X) for a complete copyright notice. resize(1X)
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