scroll back?

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Toby. Thanks for the info. Is there more info as to why you use >2&1|? Why not something like redr=stdout|less? 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Toby Fisher <toby_fisher at bigfoot.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: scroll back?


> 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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