How to redirect stderr in FreeBSD?

Asked Mar 31 '23 at 21:16

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Neither of below worked

: ls 2> out.log
ls: 2: No such file or directory
: ls -al 2> error.log
ls: 2: No such file or directory
: (ls -al) 2> error.log
Badly placed ()'s.

How accomplish?

asked Mar 31 '23 at 21:16

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This is really about the shell you are using (presumably csh), rather than FreeBSD. See for example stderr redirection not working in csh – steeldriver Mar 31 '23 at 21:19
Once you solve the csh issue, it's also necessary for your test command to generate output on the stderr file descriptor. I don't think ls will do that unless you provide a filename on the command line that doesn't exist, for example ls -l notexist 2> error.log. – Sotto Voce Mar 31 '23 at 21:34

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