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Re: More/less'ing stderr



On Tuesday 24 April 2001 08:31, Manuel Reiter wrote:
> Hi csj,
>
> > How can I more/less stderr? A couple of programs I use (e.g.
> > cdrecord) use stderr for --help. So my usual method of scrolling
> > thru the built-in help ("programfoo --help | more") doesn't work.
>
> Try "programfoo 2>&1" -- this redirects stderr to stdout, which you
> can then pipe to less.
>
> You can find this in `man bash`, search for REDIRECTION.
>
> Hope this helps.

Yes, that's it. A quick Thanks for a quick reply.



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