Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

var=$(something &2>1) works perfectly and checking $? lets you know the nature of the content of $var Thank you all for the suggestions On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Steven Bailey wrote: > Would var=$(something &2>1) work? > > Thoughts > > On Mar 15, 2011 3:21 PM, "Kevin Fries" wrote: >> On

Re: email via linux?

All of the PLUG email lists are publicly archived. The plug-discuss list (this one) has a nice search engine front-end on it too. The others are kind of raw. For example: http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-applications is the management interface to the plug-applications email

Re: email via linux?

On 03/15/2011 06:57 PM, mike enriquez wrote: Maybe some of you know what is going on here? I Google my name and somewhere in Linux land some of my very old email showed up. It was old email that I sent to this group? How is this possible? I think that our email must be stored on some server somew

Re: email via linux?

i don't think it is email that never dies so much as it is the Plug websitethat the info is being stored on. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:57 PM, mike enriquez wrote: > Maybe some of you know what is going on here? I Google my name and > somewhere in Linux land some of my very old email showed up.

email via linux?

Maybe some of you know what is going on here? I Google my name and somewhere in Linux land some of my very old email showed up. It was old email that I sent to this group? How is this possible? I think that our email must be stored on some server somewhere? It was a big shocker, but now I am w

Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

Would var=$(something &2>1) work? Thoughts On Mar 15, 2011 3:21 PM, "Kevin Fries" wrote: > On 03/15/2011 04:01 PM, Ben Trussell wrote: >> This might be helpful (and by that I mean mostly not helpful - you can >> easily send stderr to a file then input a file into a variable >> however). >> >> htt

ABLEconf flyers at Stammtisch tonight

moin moin, do you want to post some flyers for us? I'll be there with a bunch of new flyers, so swing by and pick some up. ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ # ABLEconf - 2011Apr02 - Free Software for Free Enterprise # You can't handle the so

Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

On 03/15/2011 04:01 PM, Ben Trussell wrote: This might be helpful (and by that I mean mostly not helpful - you can easily send stderr to a file then input a file into a variable however). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/962255/redirecting-stderr-to-a-variable-in-a-bash-script Also, have you

Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

This might be helpful (and by that I mean mostly not helpful - you can easily send stderr to a file then input a file into a variable however). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/962255/redirecting-stderr-to-a-variable-in-a-bash-script Ben On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:08 AM, James Mcphee wrote: >

Re: panel problem

oh that did it, thank you, as usual, so elegant in linux :)) betty On 03/15/2011 01:50 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: Right click on the panel and add "Workspace Switched", that should handle your "four little desktops" Kevin On Mar 15, 2011 2:40 PM, "betty" > wrot

Re: panel problem

Right click on the panel and add "Workspace Switched", that should handle your "four little desktops" Kevin On Mar 15, 2011 2:40 PM, "betty" wrote: > I'm not sure how i did this; but as i was moving the mouse somewhere i > accidentally right or left clicked and voila; > my four little desktops di

Re: panel problem

Right click on the panel, choose add to panel then look for the desktop applet you want. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:07 PM, betty wrote: > I'm not sure how i did this; but as i was moving the mouse somewhere i > accidentally right or left clicked and voila; > my four little desktops disappeared fro

panel problem

I'm not sure how i did this; but as i was moving the mouse somewhere i accidentally right or left clicked and voila; my four little desktops disappeared from the panel and instead there are duplicates of any of the open window icons. g. i looked around in preferences, and panel preferences an

Re: Aleutia's and Other Mini-ITX Linux friendly hardware

Here is one in the US that I've put linux on: http://www.mitxpc.com/ On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:21, gm5729 wrote: > http://www.aleutia.com/products > > I have been for the past year making a personal major shift over to Flash > storage and Mini-ITX boards because of carbo

Aleutia's and Other Mini-ITX Linux friendly hardware

http://www.aleutia.com/products I have been for the past year making a personal major shift over to Flash storage and Mini-ITX boards because of carbon footprints. I have a Zotac box which has been running great after I did it's initial flash. I had to take off the back plate and slip it into i

Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

Sorry, assign stderr to a variable. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:08 AM, James Mcphee wrote: > If you just want to assign stderr to a file and don't care about stdout, > then the following works. > > $ var="$(cat bah 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3)" > $ echo $var > cat: bah: No such file or directory > > > On Tue

Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

If you just want to assign stderr to a file and don't care about stdout, then the following works. $ var="$(cat bah 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3)" $ echo $var cat: bah: No such file or directory On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:54 AM, der.hans wrote: > Am 14. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so: > > moin moin,

Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

Am 14. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so: moin moin, Ok - if I want to direct stranded out, standard error, or both to a Gotta love stranded out :). file I can do that. If I want to redirect standard out to a variable for latter use, I can do that. But how do I redirect standard error to