On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:56:36PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > I have an error handling function that traps, reports and exits on an > error. My problem is that I want to do all of that and I want to > still see stdout. > > Can anyone help with this? Here is the function. If I change > sources.list to have an invalid source it reports, but I do not see > the progress when there is no error.
> # Capture STDERR to ERR > ERR=$($CMD 2>&1) 2>&1 puts stderr (2) and adds that stream to stdout; they get mixed. So, you can't see stdout. Just get 2 and ignore 1. More detailed than that I can't help. I don't do these scripts in sh. I would use python. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
