Ambiguous output redirect

[eichar]

In Fedora 10, using the csh shell, when I enter the following command:

ls *.txt > list.tm1 2 > list.stderr

I am getting an error:

Ambiguous output redirect.

From examples I have seen, this should work. I think that the the shell is passing the "2" as an argument to ls, instead of taking it as a specification for redirecting the standard error. What can I do?
[Note, bash yields a different error]

[scottro]

Argh, I don't remember how to do it, but I am fairly sure that with csh you have to do something else. I just vaguely remember doing something as root on FreeBSD, where root's shell is csh, and wanting to redirect, and it wasn't working properly.

Sorry I can't give more help--I think I solved it by googling for csh redirect or csh stderr or something like that.

[Firewing1]

I haven't used csh in a very long time, but I know in bash (regular "sh") you need to place the "2" and the ">" characters next to each other like this:

ls *.txt > list.tm1 2> list.stderr

does that help?

[sideways]

bash -c 'ls *.txt > list.txt 2> list.stderr'

you can't do the same in csh, best you can do is redirect everything to 1 file

ls *.txt >& list.txt

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

[eichar]

Got it thanks.

[RupertPupkin]

You can do this in csh, like this:

(ls *.txt > list.tm1) >& list.stderr

[sideways]

You can do this in csh, like this:

(ls *.txt > list.tm1) >& list.stderr

ooh, very clever Thanks for the correction, in my defence, I haven't used csh/tcsh for many years.

An explanation of why that works is here
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/fa...section-9.html

Now,I bet you can't redirect just stderr (which I'll claim now is what I meant)

[RupertPupkin]

Now,I bet you can't redirect just stderr (which I'll claim now is what I meant)

Sure you can:

(ls *.txt > /dev/tty) >& list.stderr

[sideways]

lol, ok you win, although strictly speaking that's not really playing fair

(he cheated by redirecting stdout to the terminal first, sneaky chap)