How to capture stderr of dos process running in bash shell??

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Nov 13 19:08:00 GMT 2009


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:39:41AM -0800, aputerguy wrote:
>
>I am trying to capture the error messages of 'subinacl.exe' (a dos program
>included with Windows 2003 toolkit) which I am running from a bash script.
>
>However both the stderr and stdout of the process seem to go to bash stdout
>since redirecting bash stderr (2>) doesn't seem to have any effect.
>
>I assume this is because the dos process is running in a bash shell.

More likely it is writing to the console directly, rather like writing to
"/dev/tty" on UNIX.

cgf

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