[clug] bash stderr and not-so-stderr?

[David Schoen]

Hmmm. I'm almost certain I've always done it the other way, which
makes much more sense to me stream wise.

Anyway, that appears to have fixed it (will know for certain tomorrow).

- Dave.

2008/11/24 Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>:
> Hi David,
>
>> The problematic line looks something like:
>>     /usr/bin/rdiff-backup $from $to 2>&1 >> $MAILFILE || exit 1
>>
>> I've simplified that line slightly for this post but it has the same
>> problem.
>
> You need to redirect stderr to stdout *after* you've redirected stdout:
>
>  /usr/bin/rdiff-backup $from $to >>$MAILFILE 2>&1
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Jeremy
>