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Capture stderr to variable without new process

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From: rahul <rahul2012@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Capture stderr to variable without new process
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:41:57 +0530
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I guess the typical way would be:

   ERR=$(popd 2>&1)

However, the command cannot run in a sub-shell as it would have no effect
in the current shell.
Is writing to a file the only way ?

-- 
 rahul

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