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[โ€“] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I checked the docs, and I'm a bit confused with one thing. They show that you can capture the stdout of a command into a variabe, but they never show stderr being captured. How would that work?

[โ€“] syd@lemy.lol -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like this: โ€˜โ€™โ€™ $mv file.txt dest.txt$ failed { echo "It seems that the file.txt does not exist" } โ€˜โ€™โ€™

[โ€“] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

Knowing if a command failed and capturing stderr (which contains stuff like error messages) are not the same thing.