Aalice.525 net.bugs.4bsd utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!houxi!npois!alice!mad Fri Apr 23 12:24:14 1982 ls error messages Ls(1) does not send (at least some of) its error messages to stderr but rather sends them to stdout. Example: Given an empty directory called junk, when the command ls junk/* 2>/dev/null is executed, the error message junk/* not found is written to stdout, instead of being written to stderr (/dev/null). Marcia Derr