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From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Redirect &2 into a command - HowTo
To: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Jarausch)
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 15:57:23 +0100 (BST)
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Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>Is there any possibility to redirect STDERR to a command like 'xless'
>without redirecting  STDOUT as well?

The simplest way is

foo 2>>(xless)

but this executes the command asynchronously, which may not be what
you want.  To do it synchronously:

{ { foo 1>&3 } 2>&1 | xless } 3>&1

-zefram