On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 06:06:21PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 04:52:42PM -0400, Roland McGrath was heard to say: > > (Note, btw, that when invoked as sh rather than bash, it doesn't support > > the ">& file" syntax for stdout+stderr, you must use sh syntax like > > ">file 2>&1".) > This is the syntax I was using: debian/rules binary | less 2>&1.
You probably mean "debian/rules binary 2>&1 | less". The 2>&1 will redirect stderr into the rules stdout, which then goes into the pipe. Your command was redirecting less's stderr to less's stdout. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
