<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good Morning/Evening to all, > I guess that it is standard in Unixes that : > 0 : STDIN : keyborad > 1 : STDOUT : monitor > 2 : STDERR : error output device > > If this much can be accepted , and this is true for Linux verssions , too , > then how come I am given an error by my Linux machine for example : > [shyam @shyam shyam] cat < 0 > Sample > ^d > > Can not open 0 : No file or directory > [shyam @shyam shyam] > > The same occurs for 1 (STDOUT) also.
You've got the right idea, but the format is to for example save error mesages to a file foobar 2> errors.log ^^ hope this helps Joel