How to pipe stderr to a command in Bourne or Korn shell

[Mark A. Emanuele]

In article <1990Oct8.165133.17187 at cti-software.nl>, pim at cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
> 
> How can one redirect stderr to a command while leaving stdout unaffected ?

I'm not 100% sure but logically this should work.

command1 2>tempfile &
tail -f tempfile | command2

the only problem I think would be that the tail -f would never end.


another solution:
again I'm not sure but here goes:

command1 2|command2



I have not tried either of these .  let me know if they work.

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