Works great. Thanks Tony
-----Original Message----- From: Raj Kiran Grandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 6:27 AM To: Tony Heal Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen? Tony Heal wrote: > I have an error handling function that traps, reports and exits on an error. > My problem is that I want to do all of that and I want to still see stdout. Try this: $ errors=$(command 2>&1 1> $(tty)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]