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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: How does one redirect just stderr under the C Shell?
Message-ID: <1991May09.141639.5082@convex.com>
Date: 9 May 91 14:16:39 GMT
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From the keyboard of willcr@ivy.isc.com:
:In article <1991May08.154738.26889@convex.com>, tchrist@convex.COM (Tom
:Christiansen) writes:
:> 
:> Now, I'm sure someone will suggest
:> 
:>     ( foo > foo.stdout ) >& foo.stderr
:> 
:> but that's not right: stdout is mangled.
:
:How is stdout mangled?  Is it because "isatty(fileno(stdout))" will no
:longer be true?

Perhaps stolen would have been a better word choice than mangled.
Let's same it's in a script that's being run like this:

    script > script.out

The foo output no longer goes to script.out, where I expect it.

--tom
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