On February 9, 2014 1:51:30 PM CET, Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote: >> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 12:57:40 +0100 >> From: Alexander Bluhm <[email protected]> >> >> On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:21:35PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> > > Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 12:08:04 +0100 >> > > From: Alexander Bluhm <[email protected]> >> > > >> > > I would like to get rid of some 2>/dev/null. >> > > Do we want the status=... feature in OpenBSD? >> > >> > As a general rule we don't want these non-portable extensions >unless >> > they're widely implemented. >> >> I know and feel the same way. But I consider 2>/dev/null in shell >> scripts more evil. Instead of inventing something new, I used GNU. > >Perhaps we should ask ourselves the question why this gets printed on >stderr instead of stdout?
Because standard output is, er, the standard output, unless you specify sth else with of= ? I do *not* want the situation of ftp(1) where I every time have to test the invocation to see whether it prints the progress bar to stdout or stderr.
