[prog] echoing something to STDERR
Hamster
hamster at hamsternet.org
Tue Nov 11 22:20:58 EST 2003
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:14:39 +0100
Hamster <hamster at hamsternet.org> wrote:
> [ -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?
Sigh, forgot to mention that I found one way of doing it,
[ -f foo.txt ] || echo "foo.txt doesnt exist" >&2
But is this the only way??
Hamster
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