standard error Definition standard error
The standard error is the peripheral device or file where
programs write error messages by default. It is defined in the
header file stdio.h under the abbreviation stderr, and by default
is the computer's monitor.
The COHERENT shell sh lets you redirect into a file all text
written to the standard error device. To do so, use the shell
operator 2>. For example
make 2>errorfile
redirects all error messages generated by make into file error-
file.
***** See Also *****
definitions, stderr, stdio.h
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