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RE: How to capture stderr of dos process running in bash shell??


Christopher Faylor sent the following at Friday, November 13, 2009 1:43 PM
>On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:39:41AM -0800, aputerguy wrote:
>>I am trying to capture the error messages of 'subinacl.exe' (a dos
>>program included with Windows 2003 toolkit) which I am running from a bash script.
>>
>>However both the stderr and stdout of the process seem to go to bash
>>stdout since redirecting bash stderr (2>) doesn't seem to have any effect.
>>
>>I assume this is because the dos process is running in a bash shell.
>
>More likely it is writing to the console directly, rather like writing
>to "/dev/tty" on UNIX.

See also the Cygwin User's Guide:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#id322908

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