[prog] echoing something to STDERR

[Jenn Vesperman]

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:
> 
> 
> > [ -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?

You can also try stuff like cat "foo.txt doesn't exist" > stderr.


There's several ways. I like that one.


Jenn V,
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