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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: printing from awk into the stderr
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <1991Feb09.065958.22874@convex.com>
Date: 9 Feb 91 06:59:58 GMT
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From the keyboard of toad@rubikon.UUCP (Peter Cleve):
:>Is it possible to "print" from awk to the stderr?
:
:The standart (and portable) solution is :
:	print "foo bar" | "cat 1>&2"
:In nawk (comes with newer unix releases) or with gawk you can try :
:	print "foo bar" > /dev/stderr

You can only do that if you the system itself supports /dev/stderr,
not awk.  And the syntax really should be:

	print "foo bar" > "/dev/stderr"

I would say there are a LOT of systems that don't support both
nawk and /dev/stderr.  But I guess it's nice if you have it.

--tom
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 "All things are possible, but not all expedient."  (in life, UNIX, and perl)