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redir - redirect standard output and/or standard error (diagnostic output)

Synopsis

redir [-[a][oeOE] file] ... command arg1 arg2 ...

Description

Redir executes the named command with the given arguments, redirecting the standard output and/or standard input according to the options given. This program exists to remedy a serious deficiency in csh(1) , namely that csh does not allow stdout and stderr to be redirected separately. The options are:
-o file
Redirect the standard output of the named command to the file "file", only if "file" does not yet exist.
-O file
Redirect the standard output of the named command to the file "file", clobbering the existing version of "file" if it exists.
-e
Redirect the standard error (diagnostic output) of the named command to file "file", only if "file" does not yet exist.
-E
Redirect the standard error (diagnostic output) of the named command to the file "file", clobbering the existing version of "file" if it exists.
-ao file
Append the standard output of the named command to the file "file", whether or not "file" exists.
-ae file
Append the standard error (diagnostic output) of the named command to the file "file", whether or not "file" exists.

-aO and -aE are synonyms for -ao and -ae.

Example

The following example demonstrates a means for piping the output of sed through ctags and then into awk; errors from ctags will be placed in the file "errors":
% ... | sed -f sed-script | redir -e errors ctags -x | awk -f awk-script | ...
When you want to pipe command A through command B, collecting the stderr of A in A.err and the stderr of B in B.err, while displaying the stdout of B, you could do the following:
%          redir -e A.err A | redir -e B.err B

Author

Bob Glickstein
       Information Technology Center
       Carnegie Mellon University
       Pittsburgh, PA
       22-Jan-89
       ARPAnet: bobg@andrew.cmu.edu

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5-feb-88    argc==1 check added    PJT


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