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From: Paul Maisano <pemstir@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to capture stdout and stderr to separate variables in Zsh?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:40:15 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20120831T023638-716@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADdV=Mtbszh2NjtB8yFjfeo9PR1U7XV-Qi2AQMXCZ0Ag0VTS+w@mail.gmail.com>

Nikolai Weibull <now <at> bitwi.se> writes:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to capture stdout and stderr to separate variables in Zsh?
> 
> I understand that it’s not possible in sh, but I was wondering if any
> of Zsh’s additions in the redirection area would allow for such a
> separation.

Try this:

var1=`cmd` 2>&1 | read var2

Now var1 contains stdout from cmd and var2 contains stderr!

It might work with other shells too.

Regards,

Paul Maisano




      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-31  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-06  8:09 Nikolai Weibull
2012-03-06 17:16 ` Philippe Troin
2012-03-07  7:01   ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-07  9:26     ` Nikolai Weibull
2012-03-08 14:53       ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-30  7:15         ` Nikolai Weibull
2012-03-30 14:49           ` Bart Schaefer
2012-09-10  6:16       ` Han Pingtian
2012-03-07 19:37     ` Philippe Troin
2012-03-08  4:56       ` Bart Schaefer
2012-09-01 11:59     ` Han Pingtian
2012-09-09 19:18       ` Bart Schaefer
2012-08-31  0:40 ` Paul Maisano [this message]

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