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		cesarb on Oct 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like... It's not unusual in shell scripts to combine stderr with stdout by using "2>&1" or similar.

int_19h on Oct 13, 2022 [–]

It is, however, very unusual to do so and then try to parse the output. Aside from compilers, what other CLI tools make any guarantees wrt what they print to stderr?

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