Aalice.525
net.bugs.4bsd
utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!houxi!npois!alice!mad
Fri Apr 23 12:24:14 1982
ls error messages
Ls(1) does not send (at least some of) its error messages to stderr but
rather sends them to stdout.

Example:
Given an empty directory called junk,
when the command
	ls junk/* 2>/dev/null
is executed, the error message
	junk/* not found
is written to stdout, instead of being written to stderr (/dev/null).

				Marcia Derr

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