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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:26:40 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: some of the apps form cygwin are not able to redirect text to file
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n 7/21/2013 6:29 AM, R. S. wrote:
> for example
>
> grep --help > grep.txt
>    - works as expected, but
> wodim  --help  >  wodim.txt
>    - outputs text to console and the wodim.txt file is empty
>
> What is happening here ?

Maybe wodim sends its help output to stderr instead of stdout.

Ken

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