On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:27:11PM -0500, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote: > No Steve you didn't confuse me at all. But what does stderr stand fore, anyway? STDERR is a secondary output destination, (Standard Error) probably mainly for errors and messages one wouldn't want redirected to a pipe or file as normal output might be. I think this is particularly an issue when piping stuff for scripts. For console viewing and the need for all output to be viewed in a pager like more or less, the 2>&1 construct really saves the day. -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown
