~/stuff > perl foobar.pl Normal STDOUT Going to STDERR ~/stuff > echo 'Just a starting point > ' >JGBtest.txt ~/stuff > cat JGBtest.txt Just a starting point ~/stuff > perl foobar.pl >>JGBtest.txt 2>&1 ~/stuff > cat JGBtest.txt Just a starting point Going to STDERR Normal STDOUT ~/stuff > cat foobar.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; print "Normal STDOUT\n"; warn "Going to STDERR\n"; exit; __END__ ~/stuff >
You must always remember that the primary goal is to drain the swamp even when you are hip-deep in alligators.

In reply to Re^4: capturing stderr of echo piped to a file by boftx
in thread capturing stderr of echo piped to a file by cebundy

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