Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:42:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: basic sh(1) question Message-ID: <200005302142.OAA76390@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <20000530154228.C3419@dan.emsphone.com> from Dan Nelson at "May 30, 2000 03:42:28 pm"
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Dan Nelson writes: > > In sh(1), how do I make both the stdout and stderr output of a command > > get piped together into another command? > > > > For output to a file, you do this: > > > > $ cmd1 >file 2>&1 > > > > So you'd think the same thing would work for output to another command, > > but it doesn't: > > > > $ cmd1 |cmd2 2>&1 > > That line redirects stderr to stdout for "cmd2", since the redirection > is after the command. "cmd1 2>&1 | cmd2" should do what you want. Hmm... kindof non-intuitive though, eh? Because doing this doesn't work: $ cmd1 2>&1 >file Oh, whatever.. in any case, thanks for the help. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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