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Re: stdout bug? (redirection not honored)

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From: Danek Duvall <duvall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "J.D. Laub" <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: stdout bug? (redirection not honored)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:59:42 -0800
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On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:41:28AM -0700, J.D. Laub wrote:

> The problem becomes an issue when you have a command that generates
> something on both stdout and stderr, and you want to dump the stdout
> and page through the stderr:
> 
> % foo 2>&1 > /dev/null | more

See Peter's response re: multios, but note that this command doesn't match
what you described.  It copies stderr to stdout, and then sends it to two
places with multios.  Instead, you probably want

    % foo 2> /dev/null | more

which merely sends stderr to /dev/null and pipes stdout to more.

Danek

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