Re: [O] Redirecting stderr to stdout with babel/shell

[Karl Voit]

* Achim Gratz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Karl Voit writes:
>> However with an additional "echo" at the end:
>
> You need to understand what you're doing or at least copy the code
> exactly.  The last line in my example is a colon ":" so that the shell
> exit code is always zero.  

You're right. The only thing I did not know was the meaning of the
colon.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/3224910 did fix my ignorance :-)

> If not, Babel will ignore the output since it interprets any
> non-zero exit code as failure.  Since you've redirected STDERR to
> STDOUT the error buffer that would normally let you know what
> happened stays empty.  The echo has the same effect, but produces
> a blank line you don't want.

Yes, now everything makes sense to me. Thanks for your pointer!

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