[Serusers] "> /dev/stderr" versus ">&2"

Nick Hoffman nick.hoffman at altcall.com
Thu Apr 13 09:20:01 CEST 2006


Hi guys, I noticed that in /usr/sbin/serctl , output is redirected to 
stderr this way:
    > /dev/stderr
rather than this way:
    >&2

I'm curious as to why "> /dev/stderr" was chosen rather than the usual 
">&2". Any thoughts?

Cheers,
-- Nick
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