[lug] return code
scoffin at attbi.com
scoffin at attbi.com
Thu Jun 6 11:36:45 MDT 2002
>> Sufficient to determine it isn't the redirect. Thank you. I'm still
>> curious as to more of the detail about how that decision is made (though
>> I am reluctant to go digging through the bash source since I'm not much
>> of a programmer at all).
The "return code" is set by a process (executing program). The redirect
is just a change in destination of output of a process from default
to somewhere else. Redirection is done by the shell, and is not a
process in itself, so it has no return code.
=S.Coffin
GV Computing
scoffin at attbi.com
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