No stderr output

[Don Sharp]

William S Fulton wrote:
> 
> Anything sent to stderr does not appear on the terminal. It seems to
> disappear into a black hole. I think it started when I was attempting to
> redirect stdout and stderr into the same file in the same order it appears
> on the console using something like
> runme 1>&2 > filename
> I tried all sorts of combinations and didn't get it to work :(
> 
> Any suggestions for bringing stderr back from the dead?
> Thanks.
> 

For Bourne style shells I use

runme > filename 2>&1

This redirects stdout first and then stderr to whereever stdout is
pointing.

Cheers

Don Sharp

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