Which is more portable: stty < or stty >

[Johan Vromans]

In article <JV.90Mar13162312 at squirrel.mh.nl> jv at mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:

 `[SystemV:]
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 `	STTY_FLAGS=`stty -g < /dev/tty`
 `	sane() { stty ${STTY_FLAGS}; }
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 `You can't do this from your BSD .login .

To which andyb at coat.com (Andy Behrens) replies:

 `	STTY_OUTPUT=`stty 2>&1 >/dev/tty`
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 `Of course, BSD doesn't support 'stty -g', but that's another issue.

My BSD system (Ultrix) does. But I mentioned a '.login' file for Csh.

Maarten "als iemand 't kan, is hij het wel" Lithmaat replies:

 `Indeed.  But if BSD's stty(1) would have had `-g', you *could* have done:
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 `	set STTY_FLAGS="`(stty -g > /dev/tty) |& cat`"

Now this works.

Johan
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