Catching errors in a shell scripts

[Arsya Pandji]

Just a bit information about this line

OUTPUT=`command 2>&1`

It should redirect the stderr (standard error) to stdout (standard output).
Nice way.

regards,
Arsya


On 4/8/07, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 08 April 2007 02:58, Simon Skogh wrote:
> > I'm sure the subject line is a tad confusing, but I'm having problems
> > coming up with a better description.
> >
> > To cut to the chase, what I'm trying to achieve is executing a command
> >
> > >from within a shell script and trap it in a variable. This works just
> >
> > fine using something like
> > OUTPUT=`command`
> > but it doesn't seem to grab any errors.
>
> May I suggest, you replace your statement with
>
> OUTPUT=`command 2>&1`
>
>
> Nils
>
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