William S Fulton wrote:
>
> Anything sent to stderr does not appear on the terminal. It seems to
> disappear into a black hole. I think it started when I was attempting to
> redirect stdout and stderr into the same file in the same order it appears
> on the console using something like
> runme 1>&2 > filename
> I tried all sorts of combinations and didn't get it to work :(
>
> Any suggestions for bringing stderr back from the dead?
> Thanks.
>
For Bourne style shells I use
runme > filename 2>&1
This redirects stdout first and then stderr to whereever stdout is
pointing.
Cheers
Don Sharp
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