Re: [gentoo-user] directing program output

2004-01-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
gabriel wrote: when i run a program like ls the output is to STDOUT so i can pipe it or redirect it through something like sed or grep. but cvs doesn't do that. if i run cvs update /dev/null or cvs update | sed -e 's/expression/yyy/' it still prints the same thing it always does. how do i

Re: [gentoo-user] directing program output

2004-01-28 Thread Roel Schroeven
gabriel wrote: when i run a program like ls the output is to STDOUT so i can pipe it or redirect it through something like sed or grep. but cvs doesn't do that. if i run cvs update /dev/null or cvs update | sed -e 's/expression/yyy/' it still prints the same thing it always does. how do i

Re: [gentoo-user] directing program output

2004-01-28 Thread Diego Zamboni
i run cvs update /dev/null or cvs update | sed -e 's/expression/yyy/' it still prints the same thing it always does. how do i capture this information? cvs prints many of its messages to standard error (STDERR) instead of standard output. In bourne-like shells (including bash), you use 2

Re: [gentoo-user] directing program output

2004-01-28 Thread gabriel
On January 28, 2004 02:17 pm, Diego Zamboni wrote: i run cvs update /dev/null or cvs update | sed -e 's/expression/yyy/' it still prints the same thing it always does. how do i capture this information? cvs prints many of its messages to standard error (STDERR) instead of standard