Re: stderr and scripting

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Bill's LFS Login wrote:

>
> Just reverse the order oof the two redirections and you're good to go.
> The 'man bash' states that order is significant, and it is, but fails to
> also mention the exception, which is not involved woth your problem
> here, but I thought I would mention it. If you are feeding a pipe, &2
> has to be redirectoed to &1 *before*. Otherwise no-go. So
>
>    cat xyz 2>&1 | less  # Bad example, but it demonstrates the point
>
> is needed even though the man page indicates that this should not work
> as it does.
>

Thanks, Bill.  I'll give it a go like that as soon as it gets to the
end of installing glibc.  Funnily enough, I did have it like that at one
time, but "corrected" it.  I guess my former way of doing things ( make
... 2>&1 | tee -a $LOG ) led me to overlook what the man page might say
on this.

Ken
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Will code payroll for food.

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