fd2.1

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.TH FD2 1 "@OSH_DATE@" "@OSH_VERSION@" "General Commands"
.SH NAME
fd2 \- redirect from/to file descriptor 2
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fd2
[\fB\-e\fR] [\fB\-f\fR \fIfile\fR] [\fB\-\-\fR] \fIcommand\fR [\fIarg ...\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Since the Sixth Edition UNIX shell provides
no way to redirect the diagnostic output,
.I fd2
makes this possible by executing the specified
.I command
with the given arguments
and redirecting file descriptor 2 (standard error)
to file descriptor 1 (standard output) by default.
.PP
The options are as follows:
.TP
.B \-e
Causes all conventional output from
.I command
to be redirected to the standard error
as diagnostic output.
.TP
.BI \-f \ file
Causes all diagnostic output from
.I command
to be redirected to \fIfile\fR,
which is created if it does not exist.
If it already exists,
all diagnostic output is appended
to the end of \fIfile\fR.
.TP
.B \-\-
Causes
.I fd2
to stop further option processing,
forcing it to treat all following arguments
as \fIcommand\fR [\fIarg ...\fR] .
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
If
.I fd2
detects an error,
it prints an appropriate diagnostic
and exits with a non-zero status.
Otherwise,
the exit status is that
of the executed command.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B EXECSHELL
If set to a non-empty string,
the value of this variable is taken as the
path name of the shell which is invoked to
execute the specified command when it does not
begin with the proper magic number
or a `#!shell' sequence.
.TP
.B PATH
If set to a non-empty string,
the value of this variable is taken as the
sequence of directories which is used to
search for the specified command.
.SH EXAMPLES
The examples below which refer to `/tmp/$$' assume
that this directory exists and is writable by the user.
The following command line:
.PP
.RS 6
fd2 \-e echo progname: Error message
.RE
.PP
causes all conventional output from
.I echo
to be redirected to the standard error
as diagnostic output.
The following command line:
.PP
.RS 6
fd2 make foo >/tmp/$$/foo.outerr
.RE
.PP
causes all conventional and diagnostic output from
.I make
to be redirected to the file `/tmp/$$/foo.outerr',
which is first created by the shell.
In contrast:
.PP
.RS 6
fd2 \-f /tmp/$$/foo.err make foo >/tmp/$$/foo.out
.RE
.PP
causes all conventional output to be redirected
to the file `/tmp/$$/foo.out',
which is created by the shell.
All diagnostic output is redirected
to the file `/tmp/$$/foo.err',
which is created by
.I fd2
if it does not already exist.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
osh(1),
sh6(1)
.PP
Osh home page:
http://v6shell.org/
.SH AUTHOR
This implementation of
.I fd2
is written by Jeffrey Allen Neitzel.
.SH LICENSE
See either the LICENSE file which is distributed with
.I osh
or
http://v6shell.org/license/
for full details.
.SH COPYRIGHT
.nf
Copyright (c) 2005-2011
	Jeffrey Allen Neitzel.  All rights reserved.

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	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
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