Re: likely cause of empty output of terminal emulator
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 01:40:12PM +0000, visqajin@yahoo.com wrote:
> when i run $ foo > ~/foo
> the output of above command is empty.
> foo -> gui package.
Well... yes? What did you expect? You're redirecting standard output
of a "GUI package" to a file. Most GUI programs don't write much to
standard output to begin with, and whatever this one *does* write to
stdout is going into a file. The only other output you might expect
to see on the terminal is standard error -- which should only occur
if the GUI program encounters some sort of error.
So it's totally normal and expected that you would see nothing on the
terminal. There might be some output in that file you redirected stdout
to, but it would really depend on the GUI program.
WHY ARE YOU OBFUSCATING THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM YOU ARE RUNNING?!?!
> i make changes some changes.
> quit the package [ctrl+q].
What does *ANY* of that mean?
Changes to what?
What does "foo" do? Is it a text editor or something?
How do you expect us to KNOW these details if you don't say them?
In any case, if foo is a GUI text editor, it should not dump a copy of
the file that you edited to stdout. It should only write the file into
its proper place. E.g. if "foo" is really "gui-editor thesis.txt" then
it should write the file contents into "thesis.txt".
I don't know why you would expect it to do anything different.
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