Re: echo to stderr

From: Ian D. Bjorhovde (ianbjor@MOBILEAUDIO.COM)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 21:24:25 EDT

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Bill Verzal wrote:
> Can anyone tell me of a way to write to stderr without a redirect ?

With ksh, you can say,

print -u2 "text"

-u specifies the file descriptor to write to.

Good luck,

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