Which is more portable: stty < or stty >

[Johan Vromans]

[On the topic of using stdin or stdout for stty(1)]

In article <12339 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> System V assumes you may want to redirect the output somewhere other
> than the terminal being probed.

This seems quite logical to me, considering things like

	STTY_FLAGS=`stty -g < /dev/tty`
	sane() { stty ${STTY_FLAGS}; }

You can't do this from your BSD .login .


Johan
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