On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:28:16PM +0200, 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? You're not giving any information that might actually lead to an answer: something as basic as which shell you are using..
If you're using Bash, the behaviour is normal. If you're using any other shell, I don't know. rlc -- To stay youthful, stay useful. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
