[lug] /dev/stderr

Daniel Webb lists at danielwebb.us
Mon Dec 11 17:35:56 MST 2006


I know there's probably an easy answer for this, but I couldn't figure it out.
Why does

echo test >/dev/stderr

print "test" on Dom0 but not on DomU in Xen?

I finally figured out that

echo test >&2 

works on both (in bash).  What's the difference (other than that one works)?




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