lrr@gypsy.UUCP (06/05/85)
It appears that if you say: program 2>&1 | program then the standard error output of the first program is put into the pipeline to the second program. This works with the Bourne Shell on 4.2 from Sun. Larry Rogers Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories Princeton, NJ 08540 princeton!siemens!jaguar!lrr 609 734 6559
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (06/07/85)
> It appears that if you say: > > program 2>&1 | program > > then the standard error output of the first program is put into the > pipeline to the second program. This works with the Bourne Shell on 4.2 > from Sun. It's a documented feature of "sh", so it damn well better work on Suns and every other UNIX implementation in existence. Guy Harris