[sllug-members]: stderr + less

[Ian Robertson]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 13:32 -0600, Corey Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 13:23 -0600, Kurt Mahan wrote:
> > First redirect stdout(fd 1), then add a redirection of stderr(fd 2) to 
> > stdout.  Remember that sh parses args left to right.  So you need to deal
> > with stdout BEFORE redirecting stderr to it!  (why yes, I learned that
> > lesson the hard way long ago..)
> > 
> > So to send BOTH stdout and stderr to /tmp/out:
> > 	foo > /tmp/out 2>&1
> 
> The shortcut for this is "foo &>/tmp/out".

In zsh, there's similar shortcut for piping: "foo |& less".

  - Ian