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minus-squareyetAnotherUser@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoI checked the docs, and I’m a bit confused with one thing. They show that you can capture the stdout of a command into a variabe, but they never show stderr being captured. How would that work?
minus-squaresyd@lemy.lolOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoLike this: ‘’’ $mv file.txt dest.txt$ failed { echo “It seems that the file.txt does not exist” } ‘’’
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoKnowing if a command failed and capturing stderr (which contains stuff like error messages) are not the same thing.
I checked the docs, and I’m a bit confused with one thing. They show that you can capture the stdout of a command into a variabe, but they never show stderr being captured. How would that work?
Like this: ‘’’ $mv file.txt dest.txt$ failed { echo “It seems that the file.txt does not exist” } ‘’’
Knowing if a command failed and capturing stderr (which contains stuff like error messages) are not the same thing.