printing from awk into the stderr
Cliff Stanford
cliff at demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 11 05:56:19 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb09.065958.22874 at convex.com> tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>From the keyboard of toad at rubikon.UUCP (Peter Cleve):
>: print "foo bar" > /dev/stderr
>
>You can only do that if you the system itself supports /dev/stderr,
>not awk. And the syntax really should be:
>
> print "foo bar" > "/dev/stderr"
gawk (gnu awk) fakes it so that print string > "/dev/stderr" works even
under MsDos.
Cliff.
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