On Thu 07 Jul 2005 at 20:07:33 -0400, you wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Ian Macdonald wrote: > > >Hello, > >This doesn't seem right: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bash_completion]$ foo=x > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bash_completion]$ foo=bar > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bash_completion]$ readonly foo > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bash_completion]$ foo=bar >/dev/null > >bash: foo: readonly variable > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bash_completion]$ foo=bar 2>/dev/null > >bash: foo: readonly variable > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bash_completion]$ foo=bar &>/dev/null > >bash: foo: readonly variable > > What are you tring to redirect? There is no output from your > command; it is only an assignment to a read-only variable (which is > naturally going to fail).
I'm trying to redirect the error, because I have a read-only variable that may have attempts made to redefine it. I want those to silently fail. Ian -- Ian Macdonald | "Reality is that which, when you stop [EMAIL PROTECTED] | believing in it, doesn't go away". -- http://www.caliban.org/ | Philip K. Dick | | _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
