netbsd-users: echo foo

Subject: echo foo > /dev/stdout
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/21/2007 16:02:59

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Hello,

I'm having one of these brain things, where I don't get why the shell is
doing what it's doing, even though there's likely a very easy
explanation:

$ echo foo >/dev/stdout
foo
$ cat >foo.sh <<EOS
echo foo >/dev/stdout
EOS
$ sh foo.sh
foo.sh: cannot create /dev/stdout: error 9
$=20

Huh?

-Jan

--=20
You can blame it all on the Internet.
	Larry Wall

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