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Created January 16, 2011 23:29
How to redirect a running process output to a file and log out
ctrl-z
bg
touch /tmp/stdout
touch /tmp/stderr
gdb -p $!
# In GDB
p dup2(open("/tmp/stdout", 1), 1)
p dup2(open("/tmp/stderr", 1), 2)
function parse_git_branch {
git_status="$(git status 2> /dev/null)"
pattern="^# On branch ([^${IFS}]*)"
if [[ ! ${git_status}} =~ "working directory clean" ]]; then
state="*"
fi
# add an else if or two here if you want to get more specific
if [[ ${git_status} =~ ${pattern} ]]; then
branch=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}