Re: How to redirect stderr to a pipe and stdout to a file?

[Pavol Juhas <juhas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:50:30PM +0200, Haakon Riiser wrote:
> In bash, I could always do
> 
>   $ ls INVALID . 2>&1 >/dev/null | less
> 
> to send stderr:
> 
>   ls: INVALID: No such file or directory
> to the less buffer and stdout to /dev/null.  When I use the
> same command in zsh 4.0.6, _both_ stderr and stdout is sent
> to less.  If I remove "| less" from the command, it works as it
> should:  stdout is discarded and stderr is sent to the terminal.
...

You need to 
    setopt no_multios
and the redirection would work as expected.  For explanation
see the MULTIOS section in zshmisc(1).

HTH,

Pavol