[H-GEN] stderr

[Martin Pool]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Martin Pool <martin.pool at mincom.com>)



Paul Gearon wrote:
> 
> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Paul Gearon <pag at tams.com.au>)
> 
> > Does anyone know how to redirect stderr so I can save the output of a
> > process?
> >
> > ie I need to do a
> >
> > executable > test.log
> >
> > except for stderr instead of stdout.
> 
> executable 2> test.log
> 
> Or if you want stderr to go along with stdout:
> executable > test.log 2>&1

This works under bash and sh.  For other shells, RTFM.

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