Re: writing to /dev/stderr

[Alex Romosan <alex@juliet.fnal.gov>]

>
>That should work, for example
>	gawk '{print $0 > "/dev/stderr";}'
>copies its input to stderr.
>
>It's not a permissions problem; /dev/std{in,out,err} and /dev/fd/n are
>implemented internally by gawk.  They're not really files on the
>system.  Well, actually /dev/fd/n really is a symlink into the /proc
>filesystem, but gawk isn't using it.
>
>Is your gawk really gawk, not an alias for nawk or something?  I'm not
>sure if those files are supported by nawk.
>
>You could also use /dev/fd/2 which will use the /proc system.
>
>
>Guy
>
i've tried:

echo test | gawk '{print $0 > "/dev/stderr";}'

and

echo test | gawk '{print $0 > "/dev/fd/2";}'

and both give me the same error:

gawk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to
`/dev/fd/2' (Permission denied)

it works fine if i do it as root. for all it's worth i think i am
using gawk, this is the output from dpkg -i:

ii  gawk            3.0.0-2        GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l

maybe i should try using a different version of gawk.

--alex--

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