Re^3: Output of a command

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Re^4: Output of a command by gaal (Parson) on Jul 30, 2008 at 06:05 UTC
It's a pet peeve of mine for help text explicitly requested to go to stderr. If I asked for it, and it's long, please put it on stdout so I don't have to work harder to pipe it into $PAGER. Of course, if something's wrong and you need to give me an error message with some helpful text, it's fine to put it on stderr to lessen the chance of breaking my pipes.	[reply]
Re^5: Output of a command by Anomynous Monk (Scribe) on Jul 30, 2008 at 06:35 UTC
Yeah. Help going to stderr also breaks the --help\|less idiom.	[reply]
Re^6: Output of a command by parv (Parson) on Jul 30, 2008 at 06:40 UTC
... then frustratingly one invokes `p --help 2>&1 \| q` (in a bourne like shell).	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Output of a command by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 30, 2008 at 15:06 UTC
Which is why you should use a better shell and just use `--help \|& less` instead (and set up abbrevs so you can just type `,le SPC` which expands into `\|& less` for you . . . :). The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: Output of a command by gaal (Parson) on Jul 30, 2008 at 18:18 UTC


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