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The story that I recall about the origins of stderr is that without it, pipes are a mess. Keeping stdout to just the text that you want to pipe between tools an
by dbcurtis 2y ago
The story that I recall about the origins of stderr is that without it, pipes are a mess. Keeping stdout to just the text that you want to pipe between tools and diverting all “noise” elsewhere is what makes pipes useable.
- kragen 2y agothe article is about specifically what kind of mess and what kind of usability problems inspired the change