Re: Emacs Environment Variables

[Sven Utcke]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> > How often do you need to separate stdout and stderr in some shell?
> 
> Huh?
> 
> dd if=something of=something 2>>logfile | tar xf -

So what?

(dd if=something of=something | tar xf - ) >& logfile

> Stuff like that is completely common for scripting.  Or even just
> 
> echo "This is an error." >&2

echo "This is an error." > /dev/stderr

> You know, there is a reason that both stdout and stderr exist.

Yes, and tcsh doesn't handle this too well.  But just like Peter I'm
bitten by this _much_ more rarely than by the absence of a "find last
command starting with" functionality in Bash...

Maybe our usage-patterns are different?

Sven
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