Thanks Patrick, that explains it. The commands I was running didn't return any output but they did return a warning. That's why I mistakingly thought that everything was going to the log window.
On Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 3:59:30 PM UTC-4 Patrick Woolsey wrote: > This is the expected behavior: > > A text filter should accept input on STDIN and return the > processed data (if any :-) on STDOUT, which BBEdit will place > back into the document, whereas if there is any error output, > BBEdit will post that into the script output log (so as not to > adversely affect the document's contents). > > [PS: For reference please see the "Filters" section (pg. 355 > currently) in Chapter 14 of the PDF manual. :-) ] > > [PPS: Shell worksheets by their nature do not redirect error output.] > > Regards > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/> > > > > > On 4/15/21 at 2:18 PM, [email protected] (Matthew Fischer) wrote: > > >Thanks Jean, but I do have it in the text filters folder and am calling it > >via "Text > Apply Filter". > > > >On further investigation, it seems to have been because a command I was > >running generated a warning: > > > >echo "Some Text" > >^prints to the document > > > >ssh devserver "echo 'some text'" > >^prints to the document > > > >ssh devserver "mysql ..." > >mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be > >insecure. > > > >^prints to the log window > > > > > [...older messages elided...] > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/d16a5b4b-8c73-440f-a45d-137877ee7136n%40googlegroups.com.
