[prog] echoing something to STDERR

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:57:03PM +1100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Jenn Vesperman thought:
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 07:20, Hamster wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:14:39 +0100
> > Hamster <hamster at hamsternet.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > The problem with this is that echo plonks stuff on STDOUT, I want it to go
> > > to STDERR.
> 
> You can also try stuff like cat "foo.txt doesn't exist" > stderr.

I kinda like the alias route but I don't know the syntax.  

alias echoerr='echo $* >&2'

doesn't quite work.  The idea is that the '$*' should represent the arguments to
'echoerr'

Anyone know?


Conor
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