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From: Joerg Fischer <jf505 AT yahoo DOT de>
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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 21:52:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: Problem with shell commands
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Hello,

sorry, I didn't pay enough attention, I just copied from the original message ;-)

So yes, now I don't get an invalid null command message. But strangely enough it still does not work.
What I/O descriptors can be open that NEdit sees?
Are stdin, stdout or stderr always open?

Joerg

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>On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Joerg Fischer wrote:
>
>> > you should write (csh)
>> > 	view % & < /dev/null >& /dev/null
>....
>> The above /dev/null trick doesn't work for Cygwin (invalid null command).
>>
>
>I am very surprised that this works anywhere else. The correct is
>
>view % < /dev/null >& /dev/null &
>
>& is command separator, just as newline or ; so your example is
>interpreted as two commands, the second one with just redirections (that's
>about null command).
>
>-andrej


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