I could see & stuff working on csh under Solaris. 

2>&1 works everywhere. To be portable, I think 2>&1 is
good. 

I wonder why unix shells have this different behaviour
under different flavours. Generally, I find Linux one
step ahead!! :)

Cheers,
Amol.

--- Kapil Sethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Amol
> 
> why do you want an "&" near the "|" try without it.
> you command works on
> bash without the "&"
> 
> Kapil Sethi
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amol Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:36 AM
> Subject: [ilugd]: Hello and error output capturing
> in /bin/sh !!
> 
> 
> > Hey people,
> >
> > I am new here. Programmer. Good site, guys!
> >
> > I have a question :
> > In a sh script, I want to capture the output
> printed
> > to the error stream.
> >
> > gcc with NeXT PDO does that on my box.
> >
> > I want to capture version number out of gcc. I
> tried
> > gcc -v |& awk '{ print $3}', won't work under sh,
> > works with csh. Any clues for /bin/sh ? Anybody ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Amol.
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