> > And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at > > the moment. > on my system dpkg --help | less works fine. The person who had trouble > with it said it did not work for him/her. Now the problem would be because > their dpkg --help writes to STDERR and not STDOUT. In which case & will > trap them both in csh's.
Right. It was me who had the problem :) It seems it is considered a bug, as help should normally got to STDOUT. > Bash on the otherhand uses numbers. From bash man pages STDERR is 2 but I > have no idea how to use it. I am a relative newbie, so haven't looked at other shells, so now I know what & does in csh :) 2 does the same in bash. Regards, Ian W -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
