on Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:46:11PM -0400, Hendrik Boom insinuated: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:46:30PM -0400, Hendrik Boom insinuated: > > > > > > That works for regular output. However, some programs also emit > > > error messages onto stderr. The above command will *not* redirect > > > error messages into less, so they might mess up the pagination. > > > To get error messages piped through less, use > > > > > > command 2>&1 | less > > > > dude! i've been trying to do that for months. tahnks! > > > > as an aside, did /p in DOS redirect stderr, too? it's been so long > > ... > > Well, I'm glad I posted -- I nearly didn't -- it seemed too well-known. > But then I thought, piping to less is well-known, too.
well, it is well-known, but i somehow always get the order of the
ampersands and redirection >s messed up. why, for exapmle, is there a
'&' in front of the '1' there, but not the '2'?
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