Re: unable to redirect readonly variable error

[Ian Macdonald]

On Thu 07 Jul 2005 at 20:07:33 -0400, you wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >This doesn't seem right:
> >[ianmacd@jiskefet bash_completion]$ foo=x
> >[ianmacd@jiskefet bash_completion]$ foo=bar
> >[ianmacd@jiskefet bash_completion]$ readonly foo
> >[ianmacd@jiskefet bash_completion]$ foo=bar >/dev/null
> >bash: foo: readonly variable
> >[ianmacd@jiskefet bash_completion]$ foo=bar 2>/dev/null
> >bash: foo: readonly variable
> >[ianmacd@jiskefet bash_completion]$ foo=bar &>/dev/null
> >bash: foo: readonly variable
> 
>     What are you tring to redirect? There is no output from your
>     command; it is only an assignment to a read-only variable (which is
>     naturally going to fail).

I'm trying to redirect the error, because I have a read-only variable
that may have attempts made to redefine it. I want those to silently
fail.

Ian
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