Re: bash uses stderr instead of /dev/tty ?

[Padraig Brady]

Replying to myself, the following patch adds the --tty-prompt
option to bash, which does as explained below. This allows
me to "exec 2> someplace" and get desired results.
Is there any issues with doing this? Quick testing showed no
problems.

To apply patch:
cd bash-2.05
patch -p1 <bash-2.05-tty-prompt.diff

cheers,
Padraig.

Padraig Brady wrote:

> Why does bash print it's prompt/command line to stderr
> and not /dev/tty? This is silly in my opinion. I noticed
> it when I tried to redirect stderr to someplace (a colorizing
> program) as follows:
>
> exec 2> someplace
>
> When I did this, everything worked fine, except the
> prompt and command line were put in someplace
> which I didn't want.
>
> cheers,
> Padraig.