error and out redirection

[Michael Meissner]

In article <4444 at orchid12.UUCP> ellis at motcid.UUCP (John T Ellis)
writes:

| For CSH users, you can do the following:
| 
| % (command > std.out) &> std.err
| 
| Why this works is that you FIRST execute () with the standard output going
| to std.out, BUT any errors generated by () will be MERGED with standard
| output to std.err.  Since you already sent standard output somewhere else,
| the merge results in only the errors!  Pretty slick eh?!

The word pathetic comes to mind before slick.
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