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# 1  
Old 06-22-2004
Printing output to the monitor
Hi!,

In my shell scripts, I always create a logfile by adding the following line in the beginning:

exec >file.log 2>&1

This in turn directs all the output to this logfile till the script executes.

But now, I have to write some output to the monitor for the users.

So, i am doing it by the following method:
========================
CUR_DEVICE=`tty`
echo "Whatever to be outputed" >$CUR_DEVICE
========================

This works for me.. But is there any better way than this??
# 2  
Old 06-22-2004
You can write to the current terminal using /dev/tty

e.g: echo "message" >/dev/tty

You could even open a new file descriptor.

e.g: in ksh:

exec >file.log 2>&1 3>/dev/tty
:
print -u3 "message"
# 3  
Old 06-22-2004
:)
Thanks.. That works great....
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