From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-09-06T04:42:52+09:00
Subject: Re: windows shell

From: "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com>

> > Being able to invoke sub-shells on the command line would be nice.
> > Ex: ( tar cf - /home ) | ( cd /mnt/backup; tar xvfp - )
> 
>   C:\>(echo hello & echo hello2) && (echo goodbye & echo goodbye2)
>   hello
>   hello2
>   goodbye
>   goodbye2

Interesting... I'm not sure what the parens are actually
doing?  Meaning,

C:\> ( cd foo )
C:\foo>

...i.e. they don't seem to have spawned a sub-shell, because
the environment of the parent was changed.

> > How to flexibly redirect output streams?
> > Ex: 2>&1
> 
> Exactly that.

Haha, well - that IS a surprise...  Thx....  :)


Regards,

Bill