scroll back?

[Toby Fisher]

uOn Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> To make a command show usage and page the result do this:
> ls --help 2>&1|less
> the 2>&1 redirects standard error to standard output so you can page the result
> through a pager.

Hmm, have never needed the 2>&1, don't know what I'll be missing then.
*grin*

Cheers.

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