Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

[Steven Bailey]

Would var=$(something &2>1) work?

Thoughts
On Mar 15, 2011 3:21 PM, "Kevin Fries" <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/15/2011 04:01 PM, Ben Trussell wrote:
>> This might be helpful (and by that I mean mostly not helpful - you can
>> easily send stderr to a file then input a file into a variable
>> however).
>>
>>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/962255/redirecting-stderr-to-a-variable-in-a-bash-script
> Also, have you seen this?
>
>
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/bash-input-output-redirect-problem-515156/
>
> It does a similar process but uses a fifo queue.
>
> Kevin
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