[OT] combine stdout and stderr...

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> ...in C?
>
> 	#!/bin/bash
> 	exec 2>&1
> 	exec someprogram
>
> This executes someprogram with stdout and stderr combined, meaning that
> what is written to fd 2 really goes to fd 1. The shell is spawned just
> to do this merging, and then it is dropped. There must be a way to do it
> in the code of someprogram, but it doesn't seem easy to google for it...
> ...Some pointers, anyone?

In python it's easy:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
sys.stdout = sys.stderr

In C I think ``man dup'' describes how to do this.  It's been
years since I did much C, and generally avoided things like this.

Bill
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