> > > Odd. That worked. I just sent it out via 2> and I got the info. > > > Never would have thought of that. Thanks. > > > > The only reason i thought of it is because i run startx that way, > > and happened to notice that stdout is often empty, but stderr always > > has the same "non-error looking" info in it... > > Unix "standard" is to output banner-type stuff to stderr. Then it > doesn't confuse any following programs trying to parse its output.
That makes sense. Thanks for the info. eric
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