On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Alex Romosan wrote: > i've tried: > > echo test | gawk '{print $0 > "/dev/stderr";}' > > and > > echo test | gawk '{print $0 > "/dev/fd/2";}' > > and both give me the same error: > > gawk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to > `/dev/fd/2' (Permission denied)
Check that /dev/fd is a symbolic link to /proc/self/fd. Check that /proc is mounted. The permissions to /proc are determined by the kernel, so there's really no way that they could be wrong. Guy