MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:
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> The purpose of stderr is to display status messages, logging and error
> messages, even user prompts, and not mess up the program's actual
> output. This is important on a *nix system where you might be piping
> the output of one program into the input of another.
I would expect user prompts to be written to stdout, or perhaps to some
system-specific stream like the current tty, not to stderr. If a
program has user prompts, it probably doesn't make sense to pipe its
output to the input of another.
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