After using `exec 1>file`, how can I stop this redirection of the STDOUT to file and restore the normal operation of STDOUT?

Question

I am a newbie in shell scripting and I am using Ubuntu-11.10. In the terminal after using exec 1>file command, whatever commands I give to terminal, its outp

Answer 1

While I completely agree with Jonathan's Q1, some systems have /dev/stdout, so you might be able to do exec 1>file; ...; exec 1>/dev/stdout