shell test for stdout=stderr

[Robin Becker]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
>> Is there a way for a shell script to test if 2> is the same as 1>? I
>> want to put messages in both when they are connected to different files,
>> but would like to avoid duplicating the message when they are the same.
> 
> You could try using fstat(1) to print out the open file descriptors from
> your process:
> 
>     fstat -p $$
> 
> and then compare the values in the DEV and INUM columns -- unfortunately
> fstat has no way to map back from those device and inode values to
> filenames.
thanks for the fstat tip

this code seems to do what I want

fstat -p $$ | awk '{if($4=="1"||$4=="2"){F[$4]=$5+$6+$8}}
END{
if(F["1"]==F["2"]) print 1
}'

I suppose there might be a problem if F never gets created or one of 1/2 
were closed prior to execution. I probably need a BEGIN{F[""]=""} or 
something to make it a bit more robust.
-- 
Robin Becker