"-dshow-available-fonts" vs. UNIX stdout?

[James Harkins]

I just encountered something curious while trying to get a list of fonts on my 
machine from lilypond. According to the documentation of font selection:

lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x

This does indeed list of fonts, but the terminal doesn't keep enough lines to 
see the entire list. So I thought, the UNIX command line stdout redirect should 
help:

lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x 
>/home/dlm/Documents/ly/show-available-fonts.txt

But the output was not redirected. It still went to the terminal window and the 
new file is empty.

Same result piping the output to cat:

lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x | cat 
>/home/dlm/Documents/ly/show-available-fonts.txt

Is there a reason why I can't use the usual UNIXy tricks to capture stdout here?

hjh


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