On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > I was having a bit of trouble copying stderr to stdout, e.g. > > $ ls 2>&1 lkajsdflkjasdflkj >ll > ls: lkajsdflkjasdflkj: No such file or directory > > I would have expected the error message to end up in "ll". > > If I place "2>&1" at the end of the line it works. > > Is this the intended behaviour? > Øyvind
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