John McKown wrote:
Is there any better way, in a bash script, to pipe both stdout and stderr
from an application other than using a subshell? So far the only way that
I've thought of to do it is:
(command parm1 ... 2>&1) | othercommand
The parentheses don't do anything useful. Here, stderr is discarded (by
cat) in the first example, but not the second.
01:46 [sum...@numbat ~]$ find ~ -size +40000000000c 2>&1 | cat >/dev/null
01:47 [sum...@numbat ~]$ find ~ -size +40000000000c | cat >/dev/null
find: /home/summer/newstocks: Permission denied
find: /home/summer/mystocks: Permission denied
find: /home/summer/stocks: Permission denied
01:47 [sum...@numbat ~]$
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Cheers
John
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