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From: cliff@demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: printing from awk into the stderr
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.185619.17259@demon.co.uk>
Date: 10 Feb 91 18:56:19 GMT
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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):
>:	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"

	gawk (gnu awk) fakes it so that print string > "/dev/stderr" works even
under MsDos.
		Cliff.
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