/dev/stderr invalid with nested and chained redirections

/dev/stderr invalid with nested and chained redirections

[cygwin-mailinglist]

I have a script which does not find /dev/stderr when its stderr is
redirected and piped. The minimal reproduction follows below. This is a
verbatim copy from the terminal with edited-in comments prefixed with
hashes.

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW xxxxxxxx 2.8.1(0.312/5/3) 2017-07-03 14:06 i686 Cygwin
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
[...]
########################################################
$ cat say-something.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo something > /dev/stderr
########################################################

############### This is the error:
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stderr)) |& cat
./say-something.sh: line 2: /dev/stderr: No such file or directory

############### Variants without sub-shell, piping or redirection work:
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stderr)) | cat
something
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stderr))
something
$ x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stderr) |& cat
something
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh > /dev/stderr)) |& cat
something
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stdout)) |& cat
$


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Re: /dev/stderr invalid with nested and chained redirections

[Marco Atzeri]

On 10/07/2017 09:18, cygwin-mailinglist wrote:
> I have a script which does not find /dev/stderr when its stderr is
> redirected and piped. The minimal reproduction follows below. This is a
> verbatim copy from the terminal with edited-in comments prefixed with
> hashes.
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW xxxxxxxx 2.8.1(0.312/5/3) 2017-07-03 14:06 i686 Cygwin
> $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> [...]
> ########################################################
> $ cat say-something.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> echo something > /dev/stderr
> ########################################################
>
> ############### This is the error:
> $ (x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stderr)) |& cat
> ./say-something.sh: line 2: /dev/stderr: No such file or directory

I miss the need to redirect stderr "2>" to itself.


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