Thanks, I think you answered my question.
The whiptail menu while read "searches" are indeed redirected and pause expect stdio.
It will take me a while to fix that after I'll take a harder look at "redirection".
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OK, I thought I can fix this myself, but I guess not.
Now for the stupid question - all info about redirection talks about redirecting FILES.
What is the correct syntax to redirect FUNCTION ?
I assume I will have to change the redirection after the pause returns the flow back to the "while do/done "
Here is the copy of pause , it just waits for "enter" key when working correctly
On the following script that I get an error when I try to execute as root:
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bash: /root/util/mv_log.sh: Permission denied
#!/usr/bin
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Hello,
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Sir
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Hi,
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)
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