On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 09:32:45PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Supose I have a program that output long text to stderr. Can I use the less > command to page in it ? How ? > Can I switch the stdout with the stderr ?
command 2>&1 | less you can redirect stderr (fd 2) with 2> file or 2>&1 (stderr goes to same place as stdout) -- this is useful for a few things.. like redirecting ALL output to a file.. like: reallyverboseprogram > /dev/null 2>&1 note that this is not the same as 2>&1 > /dev/null -- as this redirect stderr to the terminal.. then redirects stdout to /dev/null -- while err is still going to terminal hope that helps =) Raz.. -- [ Razathorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] [ PGP public key http://www.sound.net/~fileland/pubkey.shtml ] [ Finger Print: B8 9B 4B F5 67 1C A3 86 2F 91 F2 81 08 08 79 49 ] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
