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 > System Administrator > BharatConnect Ltd. > Ph: 011-3357674 > ----- 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. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > > > > ================================================ > > To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with subscribe in > subject header > > To unsubscribe, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in > subject header > > Archives are available at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > > ================================================= > > > ================================================ > To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with subscribe in subject header > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe in subject header > Archives are available at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > ================================================= > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================