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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:36:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind_Harboe?= <oyvind DOT harboe AT zylin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Copying stderr to stdout
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Øyvind Harboe wrote:

> I was having a bit of trouble copying stderr to stdout, e.g.
>
> $ ls 2>&1 lkajsdflkjasdflkj >ll
> ls: lkajsdflkjasdflkj: No such file or directory
>
> I would have expected the error message to end up in "ll".
>
> If I place "2>&1" at the end of the line it works.
>
> Is this the intended behaviour?
> Øyvind

"man bash", "/order of redirections", Enter.
	Igor
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