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From: david@cs.dal.ca (David Trueman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: printing from awk into the stderr
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.012401.867@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 10 Feb 91 01:24:01 GMT
References: <728@mlacus.oz> <785@rubikon.UUCP> <1991Feb09.065958.22874@convex.com>
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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In article <1991Feb09.065958.22874@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
|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,

Gawk fakes the support.

|not awk.  And the syntax really should be:
|
|	print "foo bar" > "/dev/stderr"

Right.
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