From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2009-01-09T20:23:32+09:00
Subject: Re: A quick Mac OSX question


On Jan 9, 2009, at 6:11 AM, Albert Schlef wrote:

> Does mac osx supports the "2>&1" syntax to redirect stderr?
>
> In other words, does the following line of code work as expected in  
> mac
> osx?
>
>  output = `some_command 2>&1`
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Yes:

ratdog:~ mike$ uname -a
Darwin ratdog.local 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24  
17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
ratdog:~ mike$ irb
 >> output = `perl -e 'die "Aaargh!"'`
Aaargh! at -e line 1.
=> ""
 >> output = `perl -e 'die "Aaargh!"' 2>&1`
=> "Aaargh! at -e line 1.\n"


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