Catching errors in a shell scripts

[Simon Skogh]

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Nils Kassube wrote:
> On Sunday 08 April 2007 02:58, Simon Skogh wrote:
>> I'm sure the subject line is a tad confusing, but I'm having
>> problems coming up with a better description.
>>
>> To cut to the chase, what I'm trying to achieve is executing a
>> command
>>
>>> from within a shell script and trap it in a variable. This
>>> works just
>>
>> fine using something like OUTPUT=`command` but it doesn't seem to
>> grab any errors.
>
> May I suggest, you replace your statement with
>
> OUTPUT=`command 2>&1`
>
>
> Nils
>

And there's that "less hackish" way. :)

Thank you for the help!


/ Simon

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