With bash, how can I pipe standard error into another process?

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paxdiablo picture paxdiablo · Oct 2, 2009 · Viewed 63.5k times · Source

It's well known how to pipe the standard ouput of a process into another processes standard input:

proc1 | proc2

But what if I want to send the standard error of proc1 to proc2 and leave the standard output going to its current location? You would think bash would have a command along the lines of:

proc1 2| proc2

But, alas, no. Is there any way to do this?

Answer

Scot picture Scot · Mar 27, 2012

There is also process substitution. Which makes a process substitute for a file.
You can send stderr to a file as follows:

process1 2> file

But you can substitute a process for the file as follows:

process1 2> >(process2)

Here is a concrete example that sends stderr to both the screen and appends to a logfile

sh myscript 2> >(tee -a errlog)

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