Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] A dumb Unix question about console output
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 18:50:01 EEST
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:26:45 -0400, Larry Troxler wrote:
> > gimp 2>&1 | sed 's/^/gimp: /g' &
> >
> > 2>&1 means to redirect the standard error output to the standard output
> > ( Device 2 to device 1).
> >
> > Each error line will be preceded by the command name.
> >
>
> Well, yes, this would work, but it seems very brain-damaged. I mean, do people
> really use this approach to keep their output seperate?
I generally keep each app on a differnt xterm.
> I find it hard to believe that this is the answer. I can't imagine that it's
> common practice for everyone to pipe into sed every time they run an X
> program.
Well would could create start-gimp etc. scripts and put them in
/usr/local/bin. I start jack that way because it has so many arguments.
- Steve
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