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Out of curiosity: how's this different from the following? command 2>outfile.txt Or is the intention just to be clearer/more obvious?
by Cockbrand 5y ago
Out of curiosity: how's this different from the following?
command 2>outfile.txt
Or is the intention just to be clearer/more obvious?
- jmclnx 5y agotcsh/csh cannot redirect stderr, there is no '2>'. There is a way but hard for me to remember
- legalcorrection 5y agoBetween every program being modified to work around your old shell or you switching to a modern shell like everyone else, which one do you think sounds more reasonable?
- jmclnx 5y agoUN*X has many shells for a reason, if you do not understand that then not much I can say to you. Also I never said people should change their programs, I do that on the ones I write for my purposes.
- jmclnx 5y agoI cannot edit, but I can see how you could have thought I was advocating '-e', I was not :) I was advocating the "Hints" article