On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 09:03:27AM -0400, Greg Reagle wrote:
> OMG I wish I had known this YEARS ago. I can redirect the standard error of
> a program to a different terminal! I am using X11 and dwm and st on Debian.
> For example:
>
> ls --foobar 2> /dev/pts/0
>
> I am excited by the possibilities and mad at myself for not having thought of
> doing this before.
>
> When I am debugging a terminal program that use the whole screen (like a text
> editor running ncurses) it doesn't really work to have stderr information
> mixed in with the TUI. Problem solved! I can print debugging information to
> stderr. Or it would help with debugging something like dvtm.
>
> Now that I think about it, redirecting stderr to a log file and looking at
> the log file with tail -f in another terminal would also achieve similar
> goal, I guess.
>
You can also do:
dprintf(9, "something\n");
And do:
./program 9>topsecret_debug_log
#mindblown
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Kind regards,
Hiltjo
