Set variable to contain stderr or stdout (redirect error to out stream)By neokrates, written on May 21, 2010 |
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One-liner: set variable to contain stderr or stdout (redirect error to out stream)
Use 2>&1.
Example: Firefox may complain that it has not all packages it needs, capture what it complains about:
> firefoxSays=$(firefox --version 2>&1 ) ; echo $firefoxSays
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REMARK: you can grep for particular problem, i.e. does Firefox complain about not having libdbus?:
> firefoxSays=$(firefox --version 2>&1 | grep libdbus ) ; echo $firefoxSays
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