stderr/stdout

[paulh]

Does anyone have a good method for changing stderr our stdout messages? For instance, if I rsh to a bunch of boxes, one at a time, and get certain status, then all of a sudden I hit a box that's not up I want the stdout/stderr to read: "client asleep", vice the the long drawn-out "blah.blah.blah.com: No route to host". I have a shell script that successfully rsh's to up to 20 boxes, and I'd like to put the shortened "asleep" message in that script.

Thanks!

[mingshun]

Originally posted by paulh
Does anyone have a good method for changing stderr our stdout messages?


You mean redirect stderr to stdout?
Try '<cmd>2>&1'

[bwkaz]

Something like echo "asleep" 1>&2? That will print asleep to stderr, if that's what you want.

[askrieger]

How about sending the error message to /dev/null and using a test on the program return code to send your own message?

[paulh]

Thanks folks...actually, I tried all of your suggestions before I posted, but it's worth doing again...maybe I missed something. I'll let you know.