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Re: which stream is prompt written to? [message #6973 is a reply to message #6965]

Fri, 06 September 1996 00:00

Christian Soeller
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Registered: August 1996

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chs11@aloha.cc.columbia.edu (Carl H Sayres) writes:

> I need to pipe commands into idl and recieve the output from the stdout
> and stdin streams. It all works fine except that I don't receive the
> "IDL> " prompt. I'd like this so that I can know when a command has
> finished.
It's written to stderr. If you say something like
un*x> idl 2>stderr.out
you find all the prompts and the startup message in the file stderr.out.

So maybe
un*x> idl > named_pipe 2>&1
is what you would want to do (assuming ksh like shell syntax).

Regards,

Christian

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