On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Bernd Eggink <monoped@sudrala.de> wrote: > In bash (I'm on Linux, as you may have guessed) I would do this: > > result=$(xterm -e "B >&3" 3>&1) This doesn't work: io.popen[[xterm -e "B >&3" 3>&1]] ? Sam