Daniel Colascione wrote: > Hey. I'm trying fish out, and it seems pretty neat so far. What I like most > is the sane variable expansion syntax compared to bourne-derived shells. > But I need to be able to do everything under fish I can do under bash, and > there seems to be a deficiency in IO redirection. > > Under bash, > > head -1 /etc/passwd czxv 2>/tmp/bar | sort > will put, in /tmp/bar, > > head: cannot open `czxv' for reading: No such file or directory > > But under fish, the same command line just truncates /tmp/bar and discards > stderr from head.
IIRC Fish uses (at least, supplies) some made-up syntax, ^ where you might use 2> head -1 /etc/passwd czxv ^/tmp/bar | sort ... but I guess 2> should work too... -Isaac ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
