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Re: Piping unpipable output.



Christian Lavoie wrote:

> I need to write down the output (actually, I need the error message) that
> the startx command gives me. (The nice 'startx >err' doesn't work...)

That's because errors go to stderr rather than stdout. All you need is:

startx > err 2>&1

> I installed the Xserver_agx (and all it needs) on a PS/2 system recently,
> but haven't yet been able to get the X server to work....

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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com



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