[prog] echoing something to STDERR
Hamster
hamster at hamsternet.org
Tue Nov 11 22:14:39 EST 2003
Hi,
I'm writing a bash script, in which part of it tests for the existence of a
particular file.
What I'd like to do, is if the file doesnt exist, I want to it to print an
error message on STDERR.
Something like:
[ -f foo.txt ] || echo "foo.txt doesnt exist"
The problem with this is that echo plonks stuff on STDOUT, I want it to go
to STDERR.
How do I do that?
Thanks! :-)
Hamster
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